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Basque separatists declare end to 'permanent' ceasefire
Anyone follow the Basque separatists movement? I've been interested in this for some time.
From Yahoo news.....
MADRID (AFP) - The armed Basque separatist group ETA said Tuesday it was ending a "permanent" ceasefire declared last year, accusing the Spanish government of persecuting the group instead of negotiating with it.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero immediately labelled the move a "mistake" and asked the outfit to definitively give up violence.
"ETA's decision goes in radically the opposite direction to the path desired by the Spanish and Basque society, the path of peace," he said in a televised address.
ETA said in a statement it would as of midnight Tuesday "act on all fronts" to campaign for an independent Basque state.
ETA, whose four-decade campaign to achieve independence for the Basque region of Spain and southwestern France has claimed more than 800 lives, announced the ceasefire in March 2006.
What do you guys think?
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