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Basque Separatist Group ETA Declares Cease-Fire

MADRID -- It's a hauntingly familiar video here in Spain: Three masked men speaking into the camera with a banner of the Basque separatist group ETA hanging behind them. More than 850 people have died in the group's bombings, shootings and kidnappings over the past half-century, and such videos are splashed across the...

Spain Dismisses Terrorist Group's Cease-Fire Pledge

(Sept. 6) -- Spain's government today ruled out negotiations with the armed Basque separatist group ETA, saying the terrorist organization only announced a cease-fire Sunday as it is too weak to carry out further attacks. "ETA is stopping because it can't continue," Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Spain's interior minister,...

Basque Separatist Group Announces Cease-Fire

MADRID (Sept. 5) - The Basque separatist militant group ETA declared a cease-fire in a video statement issued on Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for independence. The video, which appeared in Basque newspaper Gara's website and was also made available to the British broadcaster BBC,...

World Court's Backing of Kosovo Could Boost Separatists

(July 22) -- In a ruling likely to affect independence movements around the world, the U.N. International Court of Justice in The Hague said today that Kosovo's declaration of independence is "not illegal." Authorities in the Serb territory of neighboring Bosnia have repeatedly warned that a green light for Kosovo's...

Background on basque separatists

Basque nationalism is a political movement advocating for either further political autonomy or, chiefly, full independence of the Basque Country in the wider sense.

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