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ETA warns of new strategy for independence
AFP - Tuesday, May 26
MADRID (AFP) - - The armed Basque separatist group ETA on Monday warned it is planning a new and "effective" strategy from this summer after a period of "reflection."
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"As an armed organisation, being effective and having an effective strategy becomes the focus and concern of our discussion," an ETA member identified only as "Gaueko" told the pro-independence Basque newspaper Gara.
"In this regard, before the summer, we will end a process of reflection and assembly, the aim of which is to establish an effective political-armed strategy," he said.
"Gaueko" was one of two ETA members, the other identified only as "Argi", interviewed by Gara, which is often used by the group to release its statements. The newspaper translated the interviews into Spanish from the Basque language.
The two ETA members appear on the front of the newspaper, with their faces covered and next to two picture of the symbol of the group, a snake wrapped around an axe.
ETA, considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the United States, is blamed for the deaths of 825 people in its 40-year campaign of bombings and shootings to carve a Basque homeland out of parts of northern Spain and southwestern France.
It resumed attacks in mid-2007 after a 15-month truce following a deadlock in tentative peace talks with Madrid.
Since then, the Socialist government Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has taken a hard line against it, and repeatedly ruled out any new negotiations.
Argi said that ETA "leaves open the possibility of dialogue and negotiation" with the government, while adding that for now "we are in a time of open confrontation."
The interview with the two ETA militants came less than three weeks after Patxi Lopez, the regional leader of the Socialist Party that holds power in Madrid, was inaugurated as the first non-nationalist head of the Basque government.
Unlike his predecessor, Juan Jose Ibarretxe of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), Lopez rejects any negotiations with ETA.
Gaueko told Gara that the Basque political situation is "very worrying, not because the PNV has lost its power, but because that power is in the hand of the Spanish fascist alliance."
At the end of April Spanish police said they had detained ETA's suspected military operations chief, Jurdan Martitegi, who they said was preparing a bomb attack at the investiture of the Basque government.
The two ETA members also condemned the cooperation between Paris and Madrid, which has led to the arrests of a number of top ETA leaders in France since last year.
"A game is being played between what this (Basque) country needs and what Spain and France need," Gaueko said.
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A man walks past an ETA pro-independence mural in the Basque village of Pasajes de San Pedro in northern Spain, February 2009. The armed Basque separatist group ETA on Monday warned it is planning a new and "effective" strategy from this summer after a period of "reflection."
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