{"id":5658,"date":"2014-12-01T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arovite.com\/cronologia-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:27:01","slug":"timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arovite.com\/en\/timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of terrorism in the Basque Country (1968-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This timeline provides an overview of the events which occurred between 1968, date of the first murder committed by ETA, and 2011, the year when this organization declared a definitive end to armed activity. The timeline shows the main events that involved the different terrorist organizations which were active in the Basque Country during that period, including groups like the GAL, Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberaci\u00f3n (Anti-terrorist Liberation Groups), or Comandos Aut\u00f3nomos Anticapitalistas (Autonomous Anti-capitalist Commandos). The majority of the text comes from the book Sangre, votos, manifestaciones: ETA y el nacionalismo vasco radical, 1958-2011<\/em> by Gaizka Fern\u00e1ndez Soldevilla and Ra\u00fal L\u00f3pez Romo, published in Madrid by Tecnos in 2012. The texts is accompanied by photographs from the archives of the newspapers El Correo<\/em> and La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>, which were selected by Barbara van der Leeuw.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Dictatorship, 1968-1975<\/a> Transition, 1976-1981<\/a> Democracy, 1982-1989<\/a><\/p>\n

Democracy, 1990-1999<\/a> Democracy, 2000-2011<\/a><\/p>\n

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1968<\/h1>\n

In June Javier Etxebarrieta (Txabi) became the first member of ETA who killed a human being (the civil guard Jos\u00e9 Pardines) and the first who died, afterwards, in a confrontation with the police.<\/p>\n

In August the leader of the political-social brigade of Gipuzkoa, Melit\u00f3n Manzanas, was shot dead next to his house in Ir\u00fan. This was the first murder committed by ETA which had been planned beforehand. A State of Exception was declared and the approach \u201caction-repression-action\u201d was adopted.<\/p>\n

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\nFuneral in Malpica de Berganti\u00f1os, La Coru\u00f1a, 7\/06\/1968, of the civil guard Jos\u00e9 Pardines, who was killed by ETA in Billabona, Gipuzkoa. Archive of the Municipality of Bilbao (AMB), Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1969<\/h1>\n

A great number of detentions of important members of ETA.<\/p>\n

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1970<\/h1>\n

Council of war against 16 militants of ETA in December. Six of them were condemned to death. The trial of Burgos unleashed a wave of protests against Franco\u2019s regime, and ETA gained much popularity. The death penalty was commuted to life sentence.<\/p>\n

In the Sixth Assembly of ETA there was a division between the leftist ETA VI and the ultra-nationalist ETA V.<\/p>\n

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\nDemonstrators marched in Paris, 3\/12\/1970, to protest against the trial of Burgos, initiated that day. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10142″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nJuan Mar\u00eda Bandr\u00e9s, one of the lawyers who defended the members of ETA who were judged by a military court in Burgos, read a statement to the media. The prosecution had asked for six death penalties and 752 years in prison for all of them. Burgos, 10\/12\/1970. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1972<\/h1>\n

ETA was strengthened by the incorporation of EGI-Batasuna<\/em>, split of the youth wing of the PNV: Euzko Gaztedi<\/em> (Basque Youth) of the Inland.<\/p>\n

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\nParador Etxabe Enea, in the port of Kanpazar, Bizkaia, 1972. The place where members of EGI, the youth organization of PNV, met with representatives of ETA. Here, the representatives of EGI were divided. Some, who were conducted by I\u00f1aki Mugika Arregi, decided to join ETA in the armed action. Others preferred to continue with peaceful action. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10130″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nFrancoist monument for the general Jos\u00e9 Sanjurjo, which was destroyed in Pamplona, 27\/06\/1972. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1973<\/h1>\n

In April the charismatic leader of ETA Eustaquio Mendizabal (Txikia<\/em>) was killed by the police after a shooting.<\/p>\n

In December ETA killed the admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, president of the Spanish Government and Franco\u2019s right arm, in one of its attacks that received the most attention.<\/p>\n

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\nFour hooded men, who were members of ETA, claimed to have been responsible for the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco. The declaration was made during the press conference that was celebrated in a villa in the south west of France, 29\/12\/1973. The masked man who was the only one standing was the translator. The pictures on the wall were all portraits of dead members of ETA. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1974<\/h1>\n

All the members of Security Forces now became an objective of ETA. In September an explosion killed 13 people in cafeteria Rolando. This was the first indiscriminate attack carried out by the terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

The \u00ablaborist front\u00bb of ETA split to found the party LAIA, Langile Abertzale Iraultzaileen Alderdia <\/em>(Party of the Patriotic Revolutionary Workers).<\/p>\n

Another division led to two new branches: military ETA (ETAm) and political-military ETA (ETApm). The latter promoted the foundation of the abertzale<\/em> union LAB.<\/p>\n

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\nExplosion of a device which was located by ETA in cafeteria Rolando in Calle Correo, close to the Puerta del Sol. Madrid, 13\/09\/1974. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1975<\/h1>\n

In August the Spanish Government passed a severe Anti-Terrorist decree-law.<\/p>\n

Undercover agent, Mikel Lejarza (Lobo<\/em>), made possible the practical dismantling of ETApm.<\/p>\n

In September, at the end of the Francoist regime, the executions of the members of ETApm Juan Paredes, Txiki<\/em>, and \u00c1ngel Otaegi unleashed a new wave of protests in Spain and abroad, especially in the Basque Country. As a consequence, Franco declared his last State of Exception.<\/p>\n

On the 20th of November, the dictator Francisco Franco died.<\/p>\n

Juan Carlos I became King.<\/p>\n

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\nCover of El Correo Espa\u00f1ol \u2013 El Pueblo Vasco<\/em>, 07\/10\/1975, on which the funeral for the three civil guards (Jes\u00fas Pascual Mart\u00edn, Esteban Maldonado and Juan Jos\u00e9 Moreno) was reported. All three were killed in an attack carried out by ETAm in O\u00f1ati.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1976<\/h1>\n

In July the radical Basque nationalist forces published the \u00abKAS alternative\u00bb (Koordinadora Abertzale Sozialista<\/em>, Patriotic Socialist Coordinator). <\/p>\n

In the light of the political change in Spain and based on the plan of Eduardo Moreno Bergaretxe (Pertur<\/em>), ETApm promoted the foundation of the party EIA, which would be part of the future list of candidates EE.<\/p>\n

Pertur<\/em> disappeared in the French Basque Country before the 7th Assembly of ETApm took place. His project was approved.<\/p>\n

In December the Spanish Political Reform Act (Ley para la Reforma Pol\u00edtica) was ratified.<\/p>\n

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\nLetter written by ETApm asking for 100 million pesetas for the rescue of the business owner Jos\u00e9 Luis Arrasate. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1977<\/h1>\n

In May a pro-amnesty week ended with the death of several people in the Basque Country because of police repression.<\/p>\n

The Government of Adolfo Su\u00e1rez and ETApm hold conversations in Geneva which resulted in the banishment of the most important ETA prisoners in May.<\/p>\n

ETAm, EHAS, Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista<\/em> (Socialist Party of the Basque Country), and LAIA boycotted the general elections in June, which were the first democratic elections to be held after the Second Republic.<\/p>\n

In September the newspaper Egin<\/em> appeared, which took a radical Basque nationalist position.<\/p>\n

In October the Spanish Parliament passed an Amnesty Law for all the terrorist prisoners. The two branches of ETA continued with their attacks.<\/p>\n

The so-called bereziak<\/em> (special) commandos split from ETApm and joined ETAm. Soldiers were now potential targets for ETA.<\/p>\n

The two branches of ETA began a campaign of attacks against the nuclear power plant of Lem\u00f3niz and its sponsoring company, Iberduero, which would last until 1984, with a total of 300 attacks.<\/p>\n

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\nDemonstration in support of amnesty in Bilbao, 3\/09\/1977. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10174″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nDemonstration in support of amnesty in Sestao, 2\/10\/1977. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10134″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\n28 kilos of explosives strapped to towers of high voltage of Iberduero in Mungia, 8\/04\/1978. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1978<\/h1>\n

In April, the foundation of HB, Herri Batasuna<\/em> (Popular Unit) took place, as a coalition of the parties HASI, LAIA, ESB, Euskal Sozialista Biltzarrea<\/em> (Basque Socialist Party) and ANV, Basque Nationalist Action, besides independent figures. HB was closely associated with ETAm.<\/p>\n

In September the Autonomous Anti-capitalist Commandos killed for the first time. The victim was the taxi driver Amancio Barreiro.<\/p>\n

A demonstration took place \u00abin support of a free and peaceful Basque Country\u00bb, which was organized by PNV, supported by political and union forces like PSE-PSOE, PCE-EPK, ORT, UGT and CCOO, and responded to by HB with a counter-march \u00abfor the gudaris<\/em> of yesterday and today\u00bb.<\/p>\n

In December the Spanish Constitution was approved by a referendum.<\/p>\n

In the same month para-police terrorists were responsible for the death of the leader of ETAm Jos\u00e9 Miguel Be\u00f1aran (Argala<\/em>).<\/p>\n

In these years of the Transition, ETA blackmailed business owners by means of the so-called \u00abrevolutionary tax\u00bb or directly robbed them and others to finance the organization.<\/p>\n

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\nDemonstration \u00abfor a free and peaceful Basque Country\u00bb. Bilbao, 29\/10\/1978. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10118″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nCounter-demontration of HB \u00abfor the gudaris<\/em> of yesterday and today\u00bb, which was dissolved by the Police in the calzadas de Mallona in Bilbao, 29\/01\/1978. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10132″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nIn the Biscayan town of Arrigorriaga several acts of remembrance of Jos\u00e9 Miguel Be\u00f1aran (Argala<\/em>) took place on the occasion of the third anniversary of the attack in Anglet (France) that had killed this former militant of ETAm.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10136″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nThe front of a shop in Bilbao which had been shot by ETAm for not paying the \u00abrevolutionary tax\u00bb. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1979<\/h1>\n

Only one year after its foundation HB turned into the second political force in the Basque Country in the municipal elections of April. <\/p>\n

In May Jarrai<\/em> was founded, the youth wing of the radical Basque nationalists, which was linked to ETAm. <\/p>\n

In October, the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country was approved by a referendum, which was opposed by HB and ETAm.<\/p>\n

ETA began a campaign of attacks against Spanish tourist destinations and attractions, which would continue until 2009, with a total of 225 attacks.<\/p>\n

ETA started a campaign of attacks against French tourist destinations and attractions, which would continue until 1992, with a total of 320 attacks.<\/p>\n

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\nWorkers and visitors of Puerto Ban\u00fas waiting for the explosion of a bomb which was placed by ETApm. M\u00e1laga, 5\/07\/1980. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10124″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nInterior of the office of Seguros Generales in San Sebasti\u00e1n after the explosion of a device, 26\/11\/1984. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10126″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nFiremen of San Sebasti\u00e1n removing broken glass at a car dealer of Peugeot-Talbot after a bomb explosion, 31\/03\/1985. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte.<\/em><\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1980<\/h1>\n

The year of the elections for the first Basque Parliament was also the peak year of the cycle of political violence during the Transition to democracy. More than 100 people were killed and the majority of them by ETAm.<\/p>\n

In the autonomous elections of March HB became the second force of the Basque Country after PNV.<\/p>\n

ETApm started a campaign of killing politicians of the Basque UCD.<\/p>\n

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\nDemonstration against terrorism, which was organized by PSE-PSOE and PCE-EPK. Incidents with sympathizers of radical Basque nationalism. Bilbao, 9\/07\/1980. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10120″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nThe widow of Juan de Dios Doval, together with the leaders of UCD Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda Viana and Julen Guim\u00f3n, led the demonstration against the assassination of the leader of UCD carried out by ETApm. In the same picture we see Txiki Benegas, general secretary of PSE-PSOE. San Sebasti\u00e1n, 4\/11\/1980. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1981<\/h1>\n

Elected members of HB sang Eusko gudariak<\/em> (Basque fighters) in front of the King in the Casa de Juntas in Gernika. <\/p>\n

In February the assassination of the chief engineer of the nuclear power plant of Lem\u00f3niz, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Ryan, which was carried out by ETAm, unleashed a wave of protests against terrorism in the Basque Country. We can speak of the largest series of demonstrations of that time. <\/p>\n

In the same month Joseba Arregi, member of ETAm, died in the Police station after having been tortured.<\/p>\n

Failed coup d\u2019\u00e9tat on the 23rd of February, which was attempted by the reactionary, rebellious soldiers, because of the threat of terrorism, among others. ETApm declared a ceasefire and started its dissolution, which ended halfway through the eighties. <\/p>\n

The Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) was founded.<\/p>\n

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\nAnti-terrorist demonstration in Bilbao, condemning the assassination of Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Ryan. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10148″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nDemonstration for the member of ETAm Joseba Arregi, victim of police torture. Bilbao, 16\/02\/1981. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10100″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nChat debate of Gestoras Pro Amnist\u00eda about the subject of torture, in remembrance of the anniversary of the death of Joseba Arregi, 1\/02\/1985. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10152″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nMembers of the Seventh Assembly of political-military ETA announced their self dissolution as an armed group in a place somewhere in the south of France, 30\/09\/1982. In the picture, Miren Alkorta is reading a statement, which announces this decision. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1982<\/h1>\n

The construction of the nuclear power plant of Lem\u00f3niz stopped in May after the chief engineer, \u00c1ngel Pascual, had been killed by ETA.<\/p>\n

Approval of the Amejoramiento del R\u00e9gimen Foral de Navarra (Act of Improvement of the Foral Regime of Navarre), which established an autonomous community, as opposed to the administrative union which was advocated by the abertzale<\/em> forces.<\/p>\n

Absolute majority for the PSOE in the general elections of October.<\/p>\n

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\n\u00c1ngel Pascual, chief engineer of the nuclear power plant of Lem\u00f3niz, killed by ETA. Meeting in Jardines de Albia, Bilbao, in front of the church where the funeral was held, 6\/05\/1982.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1983<\/h1>\n

First assassinations committed by the GAL, which were terrorist groups created by request of the Government to fight ETA by means of the so-called \u00abdirty war\u00bb. This groups stayed active until 1987 and killed 27 people.<\/p>\n

In October the army medical officer Alberto Mart\u00edn Barrios was kidnapped and assassinated in Galdakao by ETApm eighth Assembly. The crime caused a lot of protest. A massive protest demonstration was held in Bilbao, in which a placard referred explicitly to the terrorist group: \u00abPeople against ETA\u00bb.<\/p>\n

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\nThreatening letter from the GAL to Jos\u00e9 M. Mart\u00ednez Beiztegi because of his alleged connection with ETA, 12\/06\/1985. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10112″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nBilbao, 23\/10\/1983: head of the anti-terrorist demonstration held after Alberto Mart\u00edn Barrios had been killed.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10122″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nRoom in the headquarters of the Civil Guard of Lekunberri, Navarre, attacked with grenades by several members of ETA. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1984<\/h1>\n

The French Government collaborated closely with the Spanish Government and started with the extradition of members of ETA. <\/p>\n

The GAL killed the leader of HASI and HB Santiago Brouard in Bilbao in November.<\/p>\n

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\nThe crowd saying goodbye to Santiago Brouard in front of the City Hall of Bilbao, 23\/11\/1984. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1985<\/h1>\n

The last members of ETApm returned to Spain.<\/p>\n

The GAL killed four people, all militants of ETA, in the bar Monbar in Bayonne.<\/p>\n

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\nJoseba Aulestia (Zotza<\/em>), the last leader of the Seventh Assembly of ETApm, which had already come to an end, returned from France to Spain, 14\/01\/1985. With his return ended the operation of the social reinsertion of the militants of ETA which had been promoted by the deputy and president of Euskadiko Ezkerra, Juan Mar\u00eda Bandr\u00e9s (on the left of the picture). AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10108″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nIncidents caused by people who were demonstrating in support of amnesty for the prisoners of ETA, 7\/01\/1985. AMB, Fondo de La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10168″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nLast tribute to the four members of ETA who were killed by the GAL in the bar Monbar in Bayonne, 28\/09\/1985. AMB, Fondo de La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1986<\/h1>\n

In May the Coordinadora Gesto por la Paz<\/a> de Euskal Herria (A Gesture for Peace in the Basque Country) was founded, which was an initiative of the civic Basque society with the purpose to hold silent demonstrations after every mortal attack. <\/p>\n

ETA was responsible for a massacre in Madrid in July: twelve civil guards were killed by a car bomb on the square of Rep\u00fablica Dominicana.<\/p>\n

In September ETA killed Dolores Gonz\u00e1lez Katarain (Yoyes<\/em>), ex-leader of this organization who had been reinserted.<\/p>\n

The anti-terrorist collaboration with France was strengthened: for the terrorists, this was the beginning of the end of the \u00abFrench sanctuary\u00bb.<\/p>\n

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\nFamily and friends of eight of the civil guards who were killed by ETA in an attack on the square of Rep\u00fablica Dominicana. The funeral chapel was set up in the General Management of the Civil Guard. Madrid, 14\/07\/1986. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10156″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nThe ex-lehendakari (former President of the Basque Government) Carlos Garaikoetxea and his wife, Sagrario Mina, together with other leaders of Eusko Alkartasuna<\/em>, which was the formation he led, were going to the place where ETA killed Dolores Gonz\u00e1lez Katarain (Yoyes<\/em>), on the occasion of the tribute in her memory. Ordizia, 18\/10\/1986. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10164″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nDemonstration against the extradition of members of ETA from France to Spain in San Sebasti\u00e1n, 6\/03\/1987. Demonstrators asked for a boycott of France. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1987<\/h1>\n

HB obtained its best results in history in the elections for the European Parliament in June, with the help of the extreme left in Spain (Movimiento Comunista, Communist Movement, and the Liga Comunista Revolucionaria, Revolutionary Communist League): 363.000 votes and one member of the Parliament.<\/p>\n

Only a few days after the elections, the explosion of a car bomb, which was located in the shopping mall Hipercor de Barcelona, caused the death of 21 people. This became the biggest attack in the history of ETA.<\/p>\n

Another car bomb of ETA against the headquarters of the Civil Guard of Zaragoza killed 11 people in December.<\/p>\n

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\nMassacre in Hipercor at the hands of ETA. Air view of the massive protest demonstration. Barcelona, 22\/06\/1987. AMB, Collection of La Gaceta del Norte<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1988<\/h1>\n

In January the Basque democratic parties signed the Agreement for the Normalization and Pacification of the Basque Country, better known as the Pact of Ajuria Enea. <\/p>\n

The parallel agreements of Madrid (November, 1987) and Navarre (October, 1988) set the base for a minimal consensus to deal with terrorism at a political level. <\/p>\n

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\nThe signing of the Agreement for the Pacification of the Basque Country (Pact of Ajuria Enea). From left to right: Alfredo Marco Tabar (CDS), Inaxio Oliveri (EA), Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda (Txiki<\/em>) Benegas (PSE-PSOE), Jos\u00e9 Antonio Ardanza, lehendakari (President) of the Basque Government, Kepa Aulestia (EE), Xabier Arzalluz (PNV), Julen Guim\u00f3n (AP). Vitoria, 12\/01\/1988. Photographer: Eduardo Argote. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1989<\/h1>\n

ETA declared a ceasefire in January and negotiations were initiated between the terrorist organization and the representatives of the Spanish Government in Argel.<\/p>\n

These negotiations were stopped when ETA started killing again. This time the civil guard Jos\u00e9 Calvo de la Hoz was murdered in April.<\/p>\n

In November, extreme rightists killed the MP of HB for Biscay Josu Muguruza in Madrid.<\/p>\n

The Spanish Government began with its policy of the dispersion of the prisoners of ETA across the different prisons in Spain.<\/p>\n

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\nDemonstration in support of the negotiations with ETA, headed by the leaders of the radical Basque nationalist movement I\u00f1aki Esnaola, Txema Montero, Jon Id\u00edgoras and Gorka Mart\u00ednez. Bilbao, 22\/01\/1989. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10072″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nTribute to the MP Josu Muguruza on the day of his funeral. Muguruza was killed by extreme rightists in Madrid. Bilbao, 23\/11\/1989. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1992<\/h1>\n

In March, for the first time, the Police arrested all the leaders of ETA in Bidart (France). ETA ended its campaign against the highway of Leizaran (Pamplona-San Sebasti\u00e1n) because of changes in the outline of the first project, after having killed three people and having committed many attacks.<\/p>\n

Elkarri<\/em> was founded, defined as a \u00absocial movement for social dialogue and agreement in Euskal Herria\u00bb.<\/p>\n

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\nJos\u00e9 Luis Elkoro (left), Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Olarra (right) and two other members of HB, celebrating the modification of the outline of the highway of Leizaran. San Sebasti\u00e1n, 22\/04\/1992. Photographer: Villagr\u00e1n. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10058″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nWorks on the highway of Leizaran on the hill of San Lorenzo, Gipuzkoa, 14\/08\/1992. Photographer: Javier Mingueza. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1993<\/h1>\n

HB hit the bottom in the general elections of June. Only two MP\u2019s of HB were elected, in comparison to its five deputies in the Third Legislature (1986-1989).<\/p>\n

Gesto por la Paz started a campaign of continuing protests to claim the liberation of the people kidnapped by ETA, who were Julio Iglesias Zamora, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Aldaia, Cosme Delclaux and Jos\u00e9 Antonio Ortega Lara. The blue bow became the symbol of the campaign.<\/p>\n

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\nMass demonstration, which was organized by Gesto por la Paz to claim the liberation of Julio Iglesias Zamora, a business owner who was kidnapped by ETA. At the front of the march people were holding a big blue bow, a new symbol for peace in the Basque Country. San Sebasti\u00e1n, 12\/09\/1993.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1994<\/h1>\n

The document Oldartzen<\/em> drew the new political line of HB and gave the green light for the kale borroka<\/em> (street violence), within a strategy of \u00absocialization of the suffering\u00bb. <\/p>\n

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1995<\/h1>\n

In January ETA assassinated the leader of the Basque PP and deputy mayor of San Sebasti\u00e1n, Gregorio Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez.<\/p>\n

ETA promoted its \u00abDemocratic Alternative\u00bb, another version of \u00abKAS alternative\u00bb, searching for the union of the abertzale<\/em> forces to achieve self-determination for the people of the Basque Country.<\/p>\n

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\nPeace demonstration, organized by Gesto por la Paz, in memory of Gandhi and Gregorio Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez, leader of the PP killed by ETA. San Sebasti\u00e1n, 29\/01\/1995. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1996<\/h1>\n

In January ETA kidnapped the prison officer Jos\u00e9 Antonio Ortega Lara and, in return of his liberation, demanded the move of the prisoners of ETA to prisons in the Basque Country.<\/p>\n

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\nPacifist demonstration for the liberation of the two men kidnapped by ETA: Jos\u00e9 Antonio Ortega Lara and Cosme Delclaux, and the counter-demonstration of the radical Basque nationalists in Llodio, 23\/12\/1996. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1997<\/h1>\n

In July the Civil Guard released Ortega Lara after 532 days in captivity, the longest kidnapping at the hands of ETA.<\/p>\n

Some days afterwards, ETA kidnapped and killed the young city councillor for the PP in Ermua, Miguel \u00c1ngel Blanco. The demonstrations of rejection supposed an inflection point with respect to the attitude of the Basque society towards terrorism.<\/p>\n

Imprisonment of the Mesa Nacional (directorate) of HB under the accusation of their collaboration with the armed organization for trying to spread a video with the \u00abDemocratic Alternative\u00bb of ETA.<\/p>\n

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\nMass demonstration against the assassination of the city councillor of PP in Ermua Miguel \u00c1ngel Blanco on the square of Moyua in Bilbao, 13\/07\/1997. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1998<\/h1>\n

In February the Ermua Forum against terrorism was created.<\/p>\n

In July the newspaper Egin<\/em> was forced to close. In January 1999 it was replaced by a new one: Gara<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In September, a few days after all the abertzale<\/em> forces signed the Pact of Estella in support of self-government for the Basque people, ETA declared a ceasefire which was described as \u00abindefinite and without conditions\u00bb.<\/p>\n

In October, EH (Euskal Herritarrok<\/em>, Basque citizens), successor of HB, had the best result ever achieved by the radical Basque nationalist movement in autonomous elections (14 members of Parliament).<\/p>\n

In November Colectivo de V\u00edctimas del Terrorismo en el Pa\u00eds Vasco (COVITE, Collective of Victims of Terrorism in the Basque Country) was founded.<\/p>\n

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\nPresentation of the manifest of the Ermua Forum against ETA, with Basque intellectuals and professionals (Jon Juaristi, Agust\u00edn Ibarrola, Fernando Savater, Manuel Montero, etc.) in Hotel Ercilla, Bilbao, 13\/02\/1998. Photographer: Bernardo Corral. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10200″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nLast page of the statement in which ETA announced an indefinite ceasefire, 17\/09\/1998. Photographer: T. Fern\u00e1ndez. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10180″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nFrom left to right, Inmaculada Iruretagoyena and Miguel Olaciregui, during the press conference of the victims of terrorism, 28\/11\/1998. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1999<\/h1>\n

Creation of the civic platform \u00a1Basta ya! (Enough is enough) against ETA.<\/p>\n

In December ETA ended its ceasefire.<\/p>\n

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\nA Basque policeman passing in front of a bus which had been burnt by radicals in Bilbao, 29\/09\/1999. This happened on the same day as the celebration of Gudari Eguna<\/em> (Day for the Basque Fighter). Photographer: Luis Calabor. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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2000<\/h1>\n

The signing of the Agreement for Freedom and Against Terrorism between PP and PSOE in December. In the years after the end of ETA\u2019s ceasefire, the armed organization killed many politicians of both parties, as well as intellectuals, policemen, soldiers, etc.<\/p>\n

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\nDead body of Jos\u00e9 Luis L\u00f3pez de Lacalle, journalist and veteran anti-Francoist fighter, lying under a sheet after being killed by a member of ETA. Andoain, 8\/05\/2000. Photographer: J. M. L\u00f3pez. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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2001<\/h1>\n

In May HB appeared again as Batasuna<\/em> (Unity). The critics of the violence of ETA split and founded a new political party: Aralar.<\/p>\n

In the autonomous elections of May Euskal Herritarrok went from 14 to 7 seats. The Gestoras Pro Amnist\u00eda were illegalized in December.<\/p>\n

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\nImage of the head of the demonstration, with socialist leaders, after ETA had murdered Froil\u00e1n Elespe, who had been city councillor of PSE-PSOE in Lasarte, 20\/03\/2001. Photographer: Ignacio P\u00e9rez. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10186″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n


\nPatxi Zabaleta and other members of Aralar during a press conference. Pamplona, 05\/07\/2001. Photographer: Luis Azanza. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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2002<\/h1>\n

Approval of the Law of Political Parties, based on the Agreement for Freedom of two years ago, which prevents that a party that supports the use of violence against democracy turns into a legal political force.<\/p>\n

In September ETA declared that all the headquarters and acts of PP and PSOE were \u00abmilitary targets\u00bb.<\/p>\n

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2003<\/h1>\n

In June, by virtue of the application of the Law of Parties, Batasuna<\/em> was illegalized in Spain.<\/p>\n

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\nDemonstration on the streets of Bilbao against the illegalization of Batasuna<\/em> and other lists of candidates of the radical Basque nationalist movement, 22\/03\/2003. Joseba Permach and Pernando Barrena were among the participants. Photographer: Ignacio P\u00e9rez. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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2004<\/h1>\n

In April ETA announced a ceasefire exclusively for Catalu\u00f1a. <\/p>\n

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2005<\/h1>\n

In May the Congress\u2019 approved the negotiations between the Government of Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero and ETA in order to achieve the end of violence if the terrorists laid down their arms and did not ask for political compensation. <\/p>\n

Next, in June, ETA announced that, until further notice, politicians, except the members of the Government, were no longer their target.<\/p>\n

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2006<\/h1>\n

The new \u00abpermanent\u00bb ceasefire of ETA, which had been declared in March, was already broken in December with the attack in the car park of the airport of Barajas (Madrid) which cost the life of two people: the Ecuadorians Carlos Alonso Palate and Diego Armando Estacio.<\/p>\n

Elkarri<\/em> was turned into a new pacifist organization: Lokarri<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nLehendakari (President) Juan Jos\u00e9 Ibarretxe and the several ministers of the Basque Government in a silent demonstration in Lakua against the attack at the car park of Barajas, with which ETA broke its ceasefire. Vitoria, 04\/01\/2007. Photographer: J. Andrade. Archive of El Correo<\/em>.<\/center>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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2007<\/h1>\n

In June ETA ended its ceasefire.<\/p>\n

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2008<\/h1>\n

In November Garikoitz Aspiazu, leader of the military machine of ETA, was arrested in France.\n<\/p>\n

In less than a month the French police arrested his presumed successor: Aitzol Iriondo.\n<\/p>\n

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2009<\/h1>\n

In April Jurdan Martitegi was arrested. He was the third leader of ETA who got arrested within six months.\n<\/p>\n

The European Court of Human Rights ratified the sentence of 2003 which had illegalized Batasuna<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

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2010<\/h1>\n

The radical Basque nationalists presented the document Zutik Euskal Herria<\/em> (Euskal Herria standing) in February, in which they abandoned the use of political violence.<\/p>\n

The French policeman Jean-Serge N\u00e9rin died in March in a confrontation with several members of ETA. It was the last murder committed by the terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

In September ETA announced that it would no longer carry out \u201carmed actions\u201d.<\/p>\n

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2011<\/h1>\n

In January, ETA, which was weaker than ever, declared a \u00abpermanent, general and verifiable ceasefire\u00bb. Sortu<\/em> (Be born or Create), the new brand of the radical Basque nationalist movement, presented its statutes in February, in which they abandoned the use of political violence.<\/p>\n

In the municipal elections of May, after the illegalization of Sortu<\/em>, the radical Basque nationalists presented themselves within the coalition Bildu<\/em> (Join, together with EA and Alternatiba<\/em>), which became the second political force in the Basque Country after PNV.<\/p>\n

In October Lokarri<\/em> organized an International Peace Conference in San Sebasti\u00e1n, in which a declaration was presented to ETA calling for its \u00abdefinitive cessation of its armed activity\u00bb.<\/p>\n

On the 20th of October ETA proclaimed its \u00abpermanent ceasefire\u00bb, although not its dissolution neither the return of its weapons. Between 1968 and 2010 ETA and other related terrorist organizations had ended the life of 845 people.<\/p>\n

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