If there is something that defines the Basque spirit is their commitment to democracy and their will to negotiate. After the Basque independentist victory at the polls last Sunday, here is a note of the good things that come up from defeating fascism with votes, read on:
Now, about that last line, well, the reporter wants to make brownie points with the fascist spanish regime, ETA's truce came to an end due to Madrid's intransigence to seat down and negotiate, Aznar's hardline's stand comes from his hate to everything Basque. He is so stupid that he does not understand that if ETA decides to call it quits and disolves, then that is the end of it. Aznar wants extinction and we have to wonder if he knows what that word means, just in case, lets send him to the Galizan coast where a whole ecosystem is on the brink of extinction thanks to Aznar's moronic decisions when dealing with the oil tanker Prestige.
IRA truce priest helps broker Eta ceasefire
By Isambard Wilkinson in Madrid
(Filed: 29/05/2003)
An Irish Roman Catholic priest has been summoned to Spain by Basque nationalists to negotiate a ceasefire between the Spanish government and the separatist terrorist group Eta.
Fr Alec Reid, who helped to broker the IRA ceasefire, flew to Spain after local elections there last weekend.
The Spanish conservative newspaper ABC said he was trying to forge a consensus among Eta, its banned political wing, Batasuna, and the mainstream Basque Nationalist Party, which governs the region. If successful, he is expected to mediate between the Basques and the Madrid government in an attempt to bring about an Eta ceasefire.
Fr Reid is reported to believe that Eta could call a halt to terror attacks if the authorities agree to go further towards independence than the current plan to hold a referendum on establishing a Basque "free state associated with Spain".
The presence of a "meddling priest" has irritated many Spanish politicians, who see no similarities between the Basque region and Northern Ireland. Fr Reid was at the heart of negotiations on the IRA's ceasefire that led to the Good Friday Agreement.
His sympathies for the Basque nationalist movement are well known. He has written a treatise on the Basque struggle that was greeted enthusiastically by nationalist politicians.
Recent reports in the Spanish press have speculated that Eta is on the point of declaring a ceasefire. After numerous arrests of terrorists over the past two years and the possible defection of two senior members, the group is said to be on the ropes.
Last Sunday's elections were the first in which Batasuna was not permitted to stand. ABC suggested that Fr Reid's presence in Spain was prompted by a crisis among radical Basque nationalists who now have no official representation or funding.
Responding to the reports of a possible ceasefire the Spanish prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, said his government was interested only in one piece of news about Eta - "its extinction".
His hardline stance partly stems from the bitter memory of Eta's 14-month ceasefire in 1999-2000. Eta later admitted it was a ruse to win time.
Now, about that last line, well, the reporter wants to make brownie points with the fascist spanish regime, ETA's truce came to an end due to Madrid's intransigence to seat down and negotiate, Aznar's hardline's stand comes from his hate to everything Basque. He is so stupid that he does not understand that if ETA decides to call it quits and disolves, then that is the end of it. Aznar wants extinction and we have to wonder if he knows what that word means, just in case, lets send him to the Galizan coast where a whole ecosystem is on the brink of extinction thanks to Aznar's moronic decisions when dealing with the oil tanker Prestige.
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