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February 1, 1980: 6 Civil Guards are killed in an ambush at Ispaster after their convoy was attacked with guns and grenades. 2 ETA members are also killed by a grenade they had thrown. This was the deadliest incident of 1980. April 16, 1980: 2 Civil Guards are killed after the border post they were manning was attacked with gunfire. [46]
ETA emblem. ETA, [b] an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [c] ("Basque Homeland and Liberty" [12] or "Basque Country and Freedom" [13]), was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left [14] separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region.
The 1980 Zarautz attack was a mass shooting gun attack by the Basque separatist organisation ETA which occurred on 3 November 1980 in the Basque town of Zarautz in Gipuzkoa. The targets were several off duty civil guards belonging to the traffic department, who were drinking in a bar in the town.
Far-right paramilitary groups fighting against ETA were also active in the 1970s and 1980s. Although the debate on Basque independence started in the 19th century, the armed conflict did not start until ETA was created in 1959.
The 1980 Ispaster attack was a gun and grenade attack by the Basque separatist organisation ETA which occurred on 1 February 1980 near the Basque town of Ispaster. The targets were a convoy of civil guards who were escorting workers and weapons from the nearby Esperanza y Cia Arms factory to Bilbao. A total of six civil guards were killed ...
The attack occurred nearly six months after the Hipercor bombing in Barcelona had killed 21 people and injured 45. Following the Barcelona bombing, ETA's call for talks with the government of Felipe González was rejected and, on 5 November 1987, the Pact of Madrid resulted in an agreement between the main Spanish political parties to release a joint statement rejecting the legitimacy of ETA ...
The July 1979 Madrid bombings were a series of bomb attacks carried out by ETA political-military (ETA-pm), a faction of the armed Basque separatist group ETA.The attacks, consisting of coordinated bombings in Barajas Airport and the train stations of Atocha and Chamartín, killed 7 people and injured a further 100.
Two ETA members open fire on Civil Guards in a bar with machine guns. Four guards and a civilian are killed and 5 other people are wounded. ETA: Basque conflict: 16 December Armed Assault 1 0 Santiago, Chile: An armed commando of the MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement) assaulted a bank, killing a customer. Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)