Egunero

As you may know by now, taking advantage of the situation created by their authoritarian and fascist decision to shut down Egunkaria, the Spanish repressive forces have raided the headquarters of Ikastolak, the Basque language school system. This is an all out attack against one of the cornerstones of Basque culture and identity which is Euskara, the Basque language.

This note was published today by the New York Times:

Basque Paper Changes Name After ETA Link

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:50 p.m. ET

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- A Basque newspaper that was shut down over suspicion on aiding the armed separatist group ETA came out Friday with a new name and a vow to keep publishing.

A day after being shut down by police, Egunkaria renamed itself "Egunero'' and published a 16-page edition with a banner headline proclaiming: "Closed, but not quiet.''

Egunkaria means "newspaper'' in the Basque language. Egunero means "every day.''

Egunero dedicated all of its coverage on Thursday's police raids that closed down its offices across the Basque region and neighboring Navarra.

Police arrested 10 executives of Egunkaria's publishing company and editor-in-chief Marcelo Otamendi. They also seized documents and computer equipment.

Xavier Lekuona, Egunkaria's assistant director, denied the newspaper has links to the ETA.

"We are going to continue with the same drive that we were born with and we'll continue as an homage to the detained and to the readers of the newspaper,'' Lekuona said.

Authorities say the newspaper was a communications tool for ETA --alleging that when police arrested ETA commando groups, Egunkaria alerted other operatives.

Egunkaria was Spain's only Basque language newspaper, with a circulation of 15,000.

National Court Judge Juan del Olmo described Thursday's closure as temporary while he probes the fund-raising network of the separatist group ETA.

Police shut down another Basque-language paper, Egin, in 1998. The paper, also accused of aiding ETA, has never reopened although no one at the paper has been tried.

A march to protest the closure is scheduled for Saturday in the northern Basque city of San Sebastian.

Notice the bias against the Basque people, the news corporations know that with Aznar supporting Bush's war in Iraq the "correct" thing to do is to blemish the image of the Basque people as much as possible. That shows you the moral decay of the US based journalists.

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