“Euskadi Ta Askatasuna” (Basque Homeland and Freedom) commonly known as ETA, was a terrorist group, active since 31 July 1959 till 20 October 2011. It was locate across south-western France and north of Spain, identifying itself as the Basque nationalist and separatist organization. The organisation’s logo represents a snake winded up an axe, it is referred to the achievement of the political and armed struggle pursuing the values of homeland and freedom.
ETA was originally create by students who were claiming the independence and freedom of the Basque country since it was under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (who ruled Spain from 1 October 1936 till 20 November 1975). The historical context may be considered useful to…show more content… Furthermore, ETA believes in an agenda to build peace based upon : responding to emergency situation such as repression, violation of rights and specially the urgent situation of the Basque political prisoners following the path that the Strasbourg tribunal indicate with the following ruling: Del Río Prada v Spain (2013)
In ETA’s opinion, the process to overcome the consequences of the conflict should include two objectives. The first one, would be to give a way out to the situation of all the people that as a consequence of the conflict is in prison or had to leave the Basque Country and secondly, the solution would be to adapt the forces that took part in the armed confrontation to new situation of Basque country freely and with no threats.
The Spanish history related to terrorism reveals that once a terrorist movement has taken roots, the way a democratic state can defeat it, is through a resolute and prolonged effort in which any departure from democratic principles in
