Basque self-determination is a right that goes beyond the actions of ETA in Spain and relentless struggle 
"Revolutions begin with the word and conclude by the sword", Jean Poul Marat.
There is something disturbing about the repercussions of the statement read by ETA in English and international society. To the topic at home and abroad accentuates the desert of the pilgrimage mists and ghostly men and women living in Spain and will not, and do not understand, and do not try to find the Basque conflict with the final solution that returns rights taken away the Basque people. I understand that the Basque country is not a colony of Spain, but neither is a people who can freely choose their destiny as established international law. Trying to confuse the determination of the Basque Country with ETA dead leaves in each is attempting to divert attention from the issue.
English No way seek dialogue with the intimidating vastness of the "remains Basques" because they have no real foundation to support the imposition and the order established so far. Then look for excuses and reasons not to perform what is for natural right.
analysis by authorities, intellectuals, journalists and drivers on ETA's statement shows the lack of any clear direction, illegibility, or even more, the erasure of all-round and the danger of stale in the void of meaning that seem to rob the words of ETA, making the statement, the event-in a disturbing image and twilight empty of content and form a struggle that takes several hundred years and makes their lives together in a new nonsense that condemns them to live in a continuing failure.
space turns out to be not so much a band of unstable weather, as the area where the eternal battle being waged for control of power in the Basque Country, space boundaries blurred by the central government. In this story, like many other stories, everything seems to transform the battlefield questioning, tenacious, by sense of protection, at the scene of utter helplessness of the rights of a people who are subjected to arbitrary power that is not theirs.
Basque nationalists (including the fundamentalist ETA) and the State of Spain are extreme symptomatic of a parable in which to enroll the most critical paths of a nation fragmented since its inception. A nation of encroachment, inheritance, arranged marriages, killings, abuses and civil war. The "Republic" has eroded their subjective media, before and after the birth of ETA and Spain throughout the history of mankind has also managed to have "ETAs" killing men and women around the world who are never convicted of the people that condemn so easily. Can the people of Spain to throw the first stone and yelling at other murderers when in their history they have been one of the biggest murderers in history?
From the Catholic Monarchs to Zapatero can portray the state fire fund military shameful what is known as Spain. ETA has foreshadowed the landscape of devastation on the end of that same story, but over all is perhaps the only one who is at fault, that is worthy of much negative denotation will be (and it is clear that much as the rest of Spain talk about the crimes committed.) In the apparent exuberance of their struggles few are criminals and other heroes, there is less hope that austerity disenchanted, less regret, anger or complaint, that evidence of a limit on this "war without end" that is a free subject, winners and losers in this stories ever written by the victors, that is, the monarchical republic of Spain.
Terrorists kill in the name of Good, also hosts the conquerors and crusaders also killed in the name of good and well the world is condemned in the name of Good, but only a few deaths are considered evil work of fans not only religious, ideological or nationalist need enemies to justify his madness, they need enemies to justify its existence. Good and bad, bad and good: the actors change their masks according to which side you look at the issue. Napoleon once said, "today's heroes are the traitors of tomorrow." Heroes become monsters and monsters heroes, as required by those who write the drama. That is nothing new. Stalin was good during the Second World War and bad later, when became head of the Evil Empire Saddam Hussein was good, and good were to use chemical weapons against Iranians and Kurds. Then it was bad. Was now called Satan Hussein when the United States, who came to invade Panama, invaded Iraq because Iraq had invaded Kuwait. The world justifies some deaths and some not. It does not matter what one thinks, the dead are dead and that all are equal, they kill, whether ETA, the Army of Spain, the United States, the Palestinians, the Chechens, the Mossad, MI6, Al Qaeda . What is critical of ETA, what kills them? What other institutions that use violence to achieve their goals do same? The Basque conflict is a political conflict and ETA uses this reason to justify its "crusade" against Spain. Since Spain imposed its rule over the Basques, a portion of its citizens react by exercising violence.
If the Basques were really free, independent, sovereign, "ETA would not exist because it would be meaningless. But it is easier and more convenient to let ETA there and fight, regardless of the damage and lives lost, to solve the conflict created by not recognizing the determination of the Basque Country. The lives lost are not worth as much as the gains from the Basque Country, given gains that secession would be lost. Can a village really should ask permission to decide your fate as they please?
The fight against ETA over 50 years it has been unproductive every point of view. Justice has prosecuted and imprisoned ETA members but the organization remains operational, the police did not give way better results, all you have achieved is that the authorities will abuse power to violate constitutional rights and guarantees and deepened the rejection of the Basque people feel by the English authority. Much less was achieved something when the English used the "Dirty War" as a means of extermination of the ETA. A "dirty war" many times worse than that carried out the ETA. The army, police, intelligence services have done their atrocities as well, if more than that carried out ETA. Without enumerating all he did Franco, we can bring a more recent example, Aznar did not speak, but the socialist government of Felipe González (1983-1996) when it created a vigilante structure, the GAL (Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups) controlled by senior government officials, who killed 26 people in the environment of ETA.
There is no way that the effective recognition of the rights of Euskadi, particularly self-determination and, as a result of it, the independence of the Basque Country, is understood and accepted by Spain. Self-determination is not the work of ETA, the International Law of the People, therefore, be achieved would be a victory for ETA as everyone says, but a victory of the human right. Enough colonialism, neocolonialism, lack of freedom, exploitation, segregation, marginalization, violence and indifference. Self-determination
The law of self-determination, one of the more managed, manipulated and yet ignored in the political debate. It was first formulated in the French Revolution of 1789 and quickly forgotten by the force of Napoleon. Reappears in the nineteenth century to join the national state doctrine, "which claims the right of every national community to consider statehood for the nations as the only natural entities" (Verdross). The concept is gaining strength after the First World War and used by President Wilson U.S. to define the drawing of borders between the new states born from the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The right to self-determination of peoples right to self determination or the right of a people to decide their own forms of government, pursue their economic, social and cultural and structured freely, without external interference and in accordance with the principle of equality.
The term self-determination for the positive international law, and may correspond to the field of natural law and possibly the field of purely political principles.
Its origins can be found, more or less defined in the following documents: Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, Bill of Rights, 1689, the Virginia Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence of the United States, 1776. Also in 1789, the American Constitution and the Declaration on the Rights of Man and of Citizens of France, the same year.
The Declaration of Independence based self-determination of necessity ("When in the course of events make it necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected to another ...") and in natural law ("the separate and equal condition to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle ").
O Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918), the principle of self-determination of peoples, and in one case talking about the rectification of borders along the lines of nationality, or simple guarantees to national minorities within other countries, allowing them to base the new European organization, with the emergence of various countries to independence.
All adopted rules on minorities in the First World War, following various procedures, minorities treaties (concluded by the principal Allied and Associated Powers with Poland on June 28, 1919, with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , Sept. 10 1919, with Czechoslovakia on September 10, 1919, with Romania, on December 9, 1919, and Greece, on August 10, 1920), special parts in peace treaties (Saint Germani, Neuilly, Trianon, Lausanne ), provisions of other treaties (Germano-Polish Convention on Upper Silesia of May 15, 1922, convention on the territory of Memel, from May 8, 1924), and statements to the Council of the League of Nations (Finland, Albania In 1921, Lithuania in 1922, Latvia and Estonia, in 1923).
The Covenant of the League of Nations, although inspired by Wilson's Fourteen Points, is limited to indirect references to Article 23 on the mandates. On the contrary, the Charter United Nations refers to this principle from the beginning, which states in Article 1, paragraph 2, among the purposes of the organization, "to promote among nations friendly relations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self determination of peoples ", echoing the same statement in Article 55.
The "International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" and the "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," say since Article 1, which is identical in both documents, that "all peoples have the right to self-determination. Under this right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural "
Self-determination of peoples is a fundamental principle of public international law and the right of the people, which is an inalienable and give rise to obligations erga omnes for States. In fact, according to many authors, self-determination has become a norm of ius cogens.
The Human Rights Committee has made clear its fundamental nature, noting that is a prerequisite for the full realization of individual human rights. The philosophical concept of self-determination is derived from the human need to realize their aspirations and affirmation of the intrinsic equality of all human beings, and as such is composed of principles not only from Western culture. As a political concept, the idea of \u200b\u200bself-determination of peoples or nations was articulated by peripheral cultures in contemporary history. Derives from the origin of the complex but powerful idea of \u200b\u200b"nation", established in the nineteenth and twentieth-century general of the hand of the decolonization process. The right to self-determination should also be considered progressive and conceptually connected with the political notion of "independence" generated by the Declaration of Independence United States in 1776 and the English-American War of Independence (1809-1824).
The external aspect of the right of self-determination is related to sovereignty. Concerns the right of peoples to freely determine their place in the international community of states, according to the principle of sovereign equality. In the exercise of this right in accordance with resolutions 1541 (XV) and 2625 (XXV), a town can determine the formation of an independent state, free association, integration into an existing state or acquisition of any other political status freely determined by the population. The external aspect is reflected in the prohibition of colonialism and domination and exploitation in general.
The concept of self-determination of peoples has been used, and still is, to designate basically three different possibilities: one, the right of peoples to freely determine their political status, understood this right as the right of a people to be form of government they want, two, is the right of a people to maintain their current form of political and economic change and, if desired, without interference from other states and three, the right of a people with clear and obvious national identity, to become state to organize its own life so policy without interference from other peoples.
Self-determination as well understood as the right to independence, results in automatic right to secession. To distinguish between two cases: a) the peoples under colonial domination of other peoples different, b) a village with a national identity without question, that as a minority is part of a population of a State, but that feel separated from it by history, culture, language, etc.
National self-determination ultimately is merely the recognition to the right of each national group to decide on the fate of their State, and therefore to separate another given state. The only democratic way to know the "will" of a nation is the referendum. This solution will still be required however democratic, as defined, purely formal. We do not really explain anything about the real possibilities, ways and means of national self-determination in modern capitalist economy. Yet in this very heart of the problem resides.
For many nations, if not for the majority of oppressed nations, groups and domestic sectors, the sense of self-determination is the abolition of the existing boundaries and the dismemberment of existing states. Hence
is derived from the ongoing conflict between the principle of national self-determination, in many cases, leads to economic decentralization and state (dismemberment, separation) and the strong centralizing tendencies of imperialism, which has at its disposal the state apparatus and military power.
power of the centralizing tendencies of imperialism in any way is derived we are required to submit passively to them. A national community is the heart of culture, as well as the national language is the living expression, and this fact will remain significant over long historical periods indefinitely.
The right to self-determination citizen can not be excluded from the peace agenda, hence the behavior of Spain against the Basque problem that can not generate more violence. Spain's attitude is not only contrary to law and peace. Basque Nationalism
If regions like the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia the term nation reaffirm the feeling of belonging to a group with a common origin, language and traditions, perhaps in Madrid or in the south of Spain word is linked to State sovereignty. These differences are where the blood of the "English" usually boil.
Worldwide, nation-states, but there are also nations that are not states. There are nations that are spread across several states and there are states that contain different nations. In the English Constitution only gives the title of nation's Spain as a whole and not their parties, ignoring the other nations like Catalonia or the Basque.
If every people has the right to self-Spain will be breaking the law by not allowing the Basque or Catalan nation to self-determination or there is a State Gallego.
To understand what a Basque nationalist feeling can summon Javier Garate member of the PNV, a man who makes his living as a butcher, "I am Basque, nothing before, anything from behind. I'm Basque and I do not want to be something else I do not want to be neither English nor New Zealand, or Sweden, or anything. I am Basque and Portugalete and already is enough, what I want more. I'm from Portugalete, 1 st generation besides, my father was and my mother Santurce Zorroza. (...) And I've always known that my father was a nationalist, my mother was a nationalist, my brothers, but the only one who is affiliated with me (...) I also think that Basque nationalism was born of English nationalism was a way to defend against the centralism that refused to recognize or accept certain things that distinguish us from others, either for good or for wrong. Unwilling to admit, Sabino Arana was not obliged to, in a moment of clarity, to say, well, let's create a party, we will try to do what Juan Palomo, "I cook it, I eat it "Heck (...) and do often say, if I'm not surprised they are antivascos, reading the things you read and hear things that you hear no wonder that we have mania because then it is you're watching TV are talking about the PNV and put as background the logo of ETA, man, do not bother me!, or a manifestation of those of street violence that go there ... These are a gang of undesirables (...) Who are enemies of nationalism Basque? For the English, who can only get the trip and Humpback Whales. Although they were born here and live here, are English period. (...) Why not say or respect what they say mostly Basques? Sure, that's a Democrat, you just have to respect what they say, when you say them and how they say what Independence (...) And with all the consequences that can not be independence or people who knows and understands much more than I say no, you have to be a federalism, or autonomy, I do not know that ... well, as, according (...) ETA That could make it disappear like in the circus, you know? Do you or rabbit do you think is going to fix this? The PP is not against ETA now, what happens is that ETA is the apology. I think you could talk to them even being killed, at least to know what they want ... And if you want to reach an agreement or consensus, or whatever, obviously, have to show some willingness (...) Yes, since when nationalism was founded, we knew what we wanted, now, when we're going to get? Or how are we going to get? I do not know, maybe at first approved constitutions, statutes and then approved after approving other statutes and other constitutions, if necessary. "
The Basque people have the characteristic features of a nation like many of today's state-run nations. The Basque people have a very distinctive culture of its own: its language, one of the first European languages, dances and sports, its traditional architecture, customs, beliefs, myths and legends reflect their lifestyle and their attitude towards it, their spirit and idiosyncrasy. The Basque people have a story itself, even if divided, that characterizes it: the Reyno de Navarra, provincial systems, the defense of its sovereign interests for centuries before the power centers of France and Spain, the draft Garat "New Phoenicia "" The Gamazada "," the Carlist "sovereignty achieved even under the special circumstances surrounding war Basque autonomy in l936-37 with the establishment and operation of its own army, police, currency, etc. The Basque people geographical identity has defined itself for centuries and known since antiquity by the names of the territories that have remained Basques: Araba, Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, Lapurdi, Navarre and Soule. The Basque people has its own distinctive legal system based on democracy and statutory codes emanating from it, individual rights, in some cases much more respectful of the modern individual who is currently in force. Property rights, inheritance, family, denoting a proper sense of seeing the social order. The
Basque people has a historical desire to be free, as shown in the above case histories as observed by the deep sentiment, expressed in different ways, which reflect the Basques: their attachment to their language, their political struggle , preserving their customs, their national identity in every corner of the world where they are, their ideological preferences clear majority of nationalist tinge, his remarkable commitment to support any action contrary to either fiscal or military state that is, indifference to their particular culture that these states have been imposing their overwhelming support to all efforts by national sovereignty. If a people is defined subjectively, it is known that our people have never given up on himself and therefore not to be masters of their own destiny.
Ultimately the Basque people constitute a nation, not only in its ethnic sense but at the same point of view of states that deny this condition: The imposition of the languages \u200b\u200bof the states claiming the annihilation of Euskara, the imposition of constitutional systems following the removal by force of its own system of the Basque territories, imposition of the military, police outside their society, governors or prefects who have a similar task to that of the former colonies, the implementation in the legal codes of these clauses states specifically predestined to prevent the legal existence of the Basque people. The same activity of the police in both states, the systematic introduction of foreign officials in education, justice, public administration etc. is a clear expression of the will of the French and English states annihilate the Basque national fact that is irrefutable proof of the existence of sense, law and draft constitution of that fact in the Basque country. The right to self-determination is inherent in the existence of the Basque people. The Basque people, Euskal Herria is historically the same right to independence Portugal has because if this one is by winning a battle of the Basque people is not about losing crucial battles like Noaín or Amaiur. Has the same right that Ireland may have reached freedom after centuries of struggle that ended up winning while Euskal Herria was defeated by force of arms or not the right reason. Euskal Herria has the same right as Cuba or Puerto Rico or any other of the nations that were once colonies of Spain or provinces. Self-determination can not ever be limited and less proscribed by geographical, whether river, mountain and sea battles are not historical accidents or treachery, are transactions or commitments between feudal dynasties. Euskal Herria has the same right as Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Slovenia, and others not long ago were autonomous regions within a state and agreed to its independence by majority agreement of its citizens. Euskal Herria
has the same right as Belgium, been artificially created, and Luxembourg it is because of feudal privileges, or Andorra, and Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, broken off any of the nations of the Austro-Hungarian nations today are because of the free will of its citizens. Euskal Herria has the same right to break the border that had divided as Germany, or reverse the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as does Ireland with respect to its territory cut off from the north. Euskal Herria has the same right to Israel or Palestine to become a state in their own province to maintain its own existence, just as the Kurdish people or Quebec, Tibetans, Chechens, etc. just as it is Catalonia, Scotland, Corsica, Wales Bretraña, etc.
ETA ceasefire "ETA has decided to declare a permanent ceasefire and general, which can be verified by the international community. This is the firm commitment of ETA with a final settlement process and the end of armed confrontation. " This is part of the brief statement read by three hooded ETA through a video that was widely publicized and impact in Spain.
was a long ceasefire announced. During its 51 years, ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, Basque Homeland and Liberty), the armed Basque separatist group has declared a dozen truces. In all cases, the truces were part of a negotiating strategy with the state, to try to get the right to self-determination for the Basque people to define whether it wants to remain part of Spain or start their independent future. Despite enjoying self-government, as different regions of Spain, with skills in many areas, no central government has accepted the last 35 years of democracy to hold a referendum.
Basque separatist spirit is shared by a significant segment of society in Euskadi (Euskal Herria in Euskara) and several nationalist parties, including ETA represents, since splitting in 1959 the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) its most radical left and the only weapon.
are three words that open a hope of ending this conflict that takes too long for the unfit, idiosyncrasy and convenience of Spain, those words are: permanent, comprehensive and verifiable, but the English people prefer to keep talking about persecution, extermination and disbelieve and make deaf ear to a "new" possibility of concluding a struggle not only bleeds the Basque and English, but to all humanity. These words appear after a long wait but are not expected or welcomed by the English, since for them the issue of Basque separatism is very annoying. Could it be that if you stop talking to ETA should discuss Basque self-determination? ETA Will always reminds them were also murderers? Will they remember that they are an imperialist country, with colonies and subject peoples? Will autonomism seeking the "Basque" or "Catalan" shows that the "nation" English is nothing but a puzzle of Nations imprisoned or contained by the centrifugal force of capitalism and the central power of a decaying state forces them to stay within boundaries that are not theirs? Could it be that afraid while Spain is broken into pieces showing rancid bones of a republic that was never really too much and do everything possible to keep up the charade?
The text, presented in Brussels at a press conference, was written at the instigation of some figures from Sinn Fein, the Irish separatist organization that turned the leadership of Herri Batasuna, ETA's political wing in the late 2009 to request assistance to reach final worthy of armed confrontation. The ideologue of this move was the leader of Batasuna, Arnaldo Otegui, sick of the band pulled by land political strategies with increasingly outlandish actions and with little support from much of the public. Otegui
perceived as a disaster, but was careful to make it too explicit, the failure of the peace process opened in 2006 between ETA and the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. For the political wing of the independence it was clear that the socialist government had taken great risks and high prices paid for politicians to accept the proposal to negotiate peace, and throw it all away the way in which ETA did it, making fly one of the park at Barajas airport and killed "by mistake" to two Latin American immigrants, would lead nowhere.
For its part, the English political class took note of the episode and categorize ETA ended a teenage gang led by unscrupulous politicians or compass with which it was impossible to reach any agreement. So, Madrid made it clear that ratified its policy of isolating Herri Batasuna electorally from participating in regional elections and increased the persecution of the few active cadres of the band, also closing all avenues of funding and strangling her every few days more international support. Sinn Fein
Otegui made contact with the South African lawyer Brian Currin, who was mediator in the peace process and the South African Irish, and had advised the band on the peace process in 2006 and Currin moved to make figures are listed in the column length behind a document that required him to ETA cease-fire permanent and verifiable "internationally, under conditions similar to those negotiated the end of the IRA in Ireland. The Basque separatist organization did not acknowledge my presence and when he announced his latest truce last year made no mention of these requirements. But Arnaldo Otegui
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willing to much more. And with the support of some leaders of Batasuna weight began a battle that so far, in half a century, the political arm had never won: ETA to try to impose a political decision with broad consensus among its own bases. It was thus between November 2009 and February 2010 from prison motorized Otegui a series of meetings with broad participation of the militancy in which triumphed, with more than 80 percent support his proposal to support a negotiation process that develop "in the total absence of violence." The media close to the independence movement began to show clear signs of support for this line action and the group found themselves increasingly besieged. But Otegui ETA would not break so traumatic because he perceived that if he did was to cause a split of Batasuna, causing dropouts and only make the agony of the armed gang to be extended a few years mired in the stubbornness and disregard of policy options. Meanwhile, the procession was on the inside and the messages kept coming to ETA becoming stronger and clearer. With this release, it seems, finally decided to show that he had heard.
distrust, skepticism, caution. Such were the attitudes that the political environment English behaved in front of the permanent ceasefire ETA. Most believed that the notice is insufficient because it does not represent a definitive end to violence. "It does not serve the statement. You have to take steps more forceful and definitive: we will not allow any cheating, "said the president of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. I wonder, and Spain gives happened, if in any way going to address the issue of self-determination in any negotiation, any compromise in any agreement.
A president's statements were joined by the vice president of government and English Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. "The only statement that we read all democratic governments and political parties is one in which ETA to declare and make it an irreversible and permanent. But it is clear again today that it has not done, "said the likely candidate for the succession of Zapatero and the PSOE.
But skepticism regarding the announcement of the armed organization that advocates the independence of the Basque Country was not exclusively the ruling English. A hint of disappointment with his words slid President of the Basque government, Patxi López, ensuring that the Basque ETA expected to announce its final end. "This is not the statement that nobody expected. The time for conditional truce has passed, the Basque society is not content with breaths under surveillance, we want to breathe free, "he said. Earlier, left open an eye of hope: "ETA began to assume that its end is inevitable. This cease-fire, but insufficient, closer to the end of terrorism. "
The reaction of the English opposition was too rough and not very enthusiastic. Enough to know that the Popular Party issued the same statement released when ETA declared a truce in 2006. "It's a pause, not a resignation. ETA has not apologized or repented for their crimes. Their goal has not changed, is still to self-determination " says the paper, which was accompanied by some brief words of the secretary general of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal. "Everything that has happened since 2006 reaffirms that the only valid one is the action of the rule of law. The hope of society does not lie in a statement, but the action of the bodies and the state security forces, the judiciary, international collaboration. The PP will be very vigilant in the next election to prevent by any means or any other organization ETA filoterrorista arises. In no way going to allow someone to put the peace conditions or requires the intervention of international mediators, "remarked De Cospedal.
For the Izquierda Unida (IU) a statement of ETA was insufficient. The party's Federal Executive Committee felt that the ceasefire is "insufficient progress that fails to meet the demands of the citizens nor the requirements of the end of violence in a conflict of this nature." Prior to his statement, the secretary of the leftist faction, Cayo Lara said: "The only statement that we expect from the UI is one in which terrorists announce the final and irreversible cessation of violence. ETA weapons must put on the table. We are not worth any kind of trick. "
Congresswoman Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) Rosa Díez, also rejected the attitude of ETA, which called for mockery and derision: "The armed group renounced its objectives."
The Basque separatist radical left was the only sector that examined the attitude of ETA on the positive side. Their referents considered it a brave decision and "historical significance." "The cease-fire opens in a clear and unequivocal opportunity to advance irreversibly towards a framework for peace and democratic solution," the leaders agreed Txelui Beitialarrangoitia Moreno and Marian. It is a detached faction of ETA which has allowed the political environment of the independence movement somehow overcome the outlawing of Batasuna, ETA's political wing traditional. Epitaph
Among the many accusations, mistrust, hatred, revenge, interest and complicity is ignored, leaving a new opportunity to complete in part a battle that has already been too many deaths. The underlying problem is not ETA, the problem is the binding referendum for self-determination Basque English central government does not allow.
Spain has its heroes, the Great Captain, Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Carlos V, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duque de Alba, Don Juan de Austria, Alessandro Farnese Ambrogio Spinola, the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria, or the Duke of Berwick. Have you ever given much thought to how many people killed all these "heroes" in the history of mankind? Why are hundreds of thousands of murders they committed are not critical and the other 817 deaths of ETA? For example, Cortes and Pizarro that America was committed outright genocide. Spain's history is written with blood and death, "Spain should set an example and apologize for the deaths caused in the world before they demand that ETA to apologize for their dead?
is clear that the Central Government of Spain is afraid of losing substantial benefits that gives the Basque country and would set a bad precedent for the rest of nation as Catalan or Galician, which make up the "Republic of Spain to follow the same path.
ETA was born 51 years ago, the Basque problem has centuries before ETA nationalist fundamentalism will be charged the first victim, was disregarded, banned, persecuted, annulled, annihilated different forms of claim and recognition presented by the Basque Country.
To finish with ETA should let the will of the peoples to be expressed and exercised freely. ETA is powered by the abuses and errors Spain commits daily and lack of determination shown by the Basque Country in seeking self-determination.
If the people of Spain fight for Basque self-determination as it does against ETA, ETA did not exist and the Basque Country would be free indeed. If the people of Spain fought against capitalism, which kills more people than a million ETAs, as it does against ETA, the world would be a better place to live. Let's not be hypocrites.
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