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March 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
In recent years ETA suffered a series of high-profile arrests on both sides of
the border, losing some its most feared leaders, while political momentum in
Basque areas has shifted to non-violent political movements.
In October, ETA declared a “definitive end to armed activity” and offered to
disarm in November, but Spain’s right-wing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
ruled out talks with what the European Union regards as a “terrorist group”.
France has not entered talks either, arguing Spain should take the lead in
deciding how best to resolve a conflict that took place largely on its soil,
to the anger of ETA, which insists Paris is involved.
In its statement, the separatist group accused France of pursuing a “policy of
repression” by invoking European arrest warrants to send captured militants
to Spain in “a policy of vengeance against political prisoners”.
While the French portion of the Basque country has seen a small fraction of
the violence that wracked the Spanish Basque lands and Navarre, sending
Basques to face trial in Spain has proved controversial.
Several thousand Basques staged a demonstration in December to protest the
expulsion of Aurore Martin, a Basque Frenchwoman and member of ETA’s
political winge, and of Spanish Basque militant Josu Ezparza.
On Thursday, Spanish police took custody of two more suspected members of the
separatist group arrested in France in recent years, one day after French
police detained yet another fugitive suspect.
“French decision-makers have the habit of presenting the ‘Basque problem’ as
if it was a question only for Spain, thus covering up the direct
responsibility of the French state,” the group’s statement said.
It accused France of fighting a “dirty war” to secretly dispose of militants
and said both Paris and Madrid “deny the national reality of Euskal Herria”,
the Basques’ term for what they see as their ancestral homeland.
The group says that around 140 of the 700 Basque nationalist militants in
custody are being held in France, and called on both governments to group
the prisoners in jails within the area they claim as Basque territory.
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he may consider such a move on
“humanitarian grounds” but has always insisted that, as most of the
detainees have Spanish citizenship, it is not merely a matter for Paris.
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