Europe Endorses Political Apartheid

So, the European Union, a commonwealth of nations that fancy considering themselves champions of democracy and human rights have decided to add a political party, yes, a political party to a list of so called "terrorist organizations".

They do this on behalf of the Spain, a country that is unwilling to close the darkest chapter in recent history, a state that has not come clean on its shady alliances with Nazi Germany and Italy during WWII, a nation that has never asked for forgiveness for all its crimes against the peoples and nations that it conquered and colonized.

This note was published by the BBC:

EU blacklists Basque party

The European Union has decided to add the radical Basque nationalist party Batasuna to its list of terrorist organisations.

The decision, which was made at the request of the Spanish Government, took effect on Thursday when the list was published during a meeting of EU interior ministers in Luxembourg.

Inclusion on the list obliges all EU countries to co-operate with officials investigating of prosecuting the party.

Batasuna, which is regarded as the political wing of the separatist organisation ETA, has already been banned by the Spanish Supreme Court.

Last month it was put on a United States blacklist of terror groups.

News of the ban coincided with reports that ETA had claimed responsibility for a car bomb last week in northern Spain which killed two policemen.

'Broadest assistance'

The EU list was drawn up after the 11 September attacks on the US, and includes groups and individuals believed to be linked to terrorism.

It requires all member states to give the "broadest possible assistance" to police and prosecutors working to prevent terrorist acts.

But it leaves decisions on whether or not to freeze an organisation's assets up to individual governments.

ETA first emerged in the 1960s as a student resistance movement bitterly opposed to General Franco's repressive military dictatorship.

In subsequent decades the armed organisation has waged a bloody campaign for independence for the seven regions in northern Spain and south-western France that Basque separatists claim as their own.

Now Europe, taking a self righteous stand, adds a political party that is being accused of having links to ETA to a list of "terrorist organization", let me repeat it, they are being accused. What ever happened to the presumption of innocence?

Hypocrites, all of them.

And no, Basque separatists do not claim those seven provinces as their own, history claims it.

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