ETA (separatist group) - Wikipedia
WEBETA, [b] an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [c] ("Basque Homeland and Liberty" [11] or "Basque Country and Freedom" [12]), was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left [13] separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region.
ETA | Basque Separatism, Conflict, & Attacks | Britannica
WEBETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [’Basque Homeland and Liberty’]), Basque separatist organization in Spain that used terrorism in its campaign for an independent Basque state. The group was founded in 1959 and formally disbanded in 2018.
ETA ten years on: The rise and fall of the Basque terror group
WEBOct 20, 2021 · ETA was formed by dissidents from the Basque Nationalist Party on 31 July 1959, with the goal of liberating the Basque country from Spain. It started off by setting off small explosives, with...
Basque conflict - Wikipedia
WEBThe Basque conflict, also known as the Spain–ETA conflict, was an armed and political conflict from 1959 to 2011 between Spain and the Basque National Liberation Movement, a group of social and political Basque organizations which sought independence from Spain and France. The movement was built around the separatist organization ETA, [6] [7] which had launched a campaign of attacks against ...
ETA’s bloody history: 853 killings in 60 years of violence
WEBOct 19, 2020 · MADRID (AP) — The now-defunct Basque separatist militant group ETA was formed more than six decades ago to try to form an independent state in parts of northern Spain and southern France.
What's next for Basques and Spain after ETA's end? | AP News
WEBMay 3, 2018 · MADRID (AP) — After a violent 60-year struggle that sought to create a Basque homeland in Spain through blood and bullets, the militant separatist group ETA says it has dismantled its organizational structure and “ending its journey.”
ETA’s bloody history: 853 killings in 60 years of violence
WEBMay 2, 2018 · In its goal to create an independent Basque country, ETA —which stands for Euskadi ta Askatasuna or “Basque Homeland and Freedom” in Basque— killed 853 people, most of them during the tumultuous years when Spain was transitioning from dictatorship to …
Basque separatist group ETA hands over arms, ending decades …
WEBApr 8, 2017 · The Basque militant group ETA surrendered its inventory of remaining weapons, ending some 40 years of political violence in southwest France and northern Spain.
The end of Basque terror group ETA: ‘It was unilateral, clean and ...
WEBOct 20, 2021 · When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of the Socialist Party (PSOE) was elected the prime minister of Spain in 2004, the Basque terrorist group ETA had been terrorizing the country for four decades...
What is Eta? - BBC News
WEBApr 8, 2017 · Euskadi Ta Azkatasuna, Eta, whose name stands for Basque Homeland and Freedom, first emerged in the 1960s as a student resistance movement bitterly opposed to General Franco's repressive...