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September 18: A gunfight erupts between a police patrol and an ETA group preparing to kill an alleged drug dealer. 1 ETA gunman is killed. [110] September 22: 3 grenades are fired at the police headquarters in San Sebastian. [111] September 26: A bomb is found planted under a police vehicle in Basauri. [112] September 27: A bomb explodes in ...
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 Batallón Vasco Español (BVE) (English: Spanish Basque Battalion), sometimes associated with the Alianza Anticomunista (AAA) (English: Anti-Communist Alliance), Antiterrorismo ETA (English: ETA Antiterrorism) or Triple A (English: Triple A), was a Spanish neo-fascist parapolice organization present mainly in the Basque Country and Southern France.
The movement was built around the separatist organization ETA, [6] [7] which had launched a campaign of attacks against Spanish administrations since 1959. ETA had been proscribed as a terrorist organization by the Spanish, British, [8] French [9] and American [10] authorities at different moments. The conflict took place mostly on Spanish soil ...
The Basque National Liberation Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Vasco, MLNV; Basque: Euskal Nazio Askapenerako Mugimendua, "ENAM") was an umbrella term that comprised all social, political and armed organizations orbiting around the ideas of the illegal armed organisation Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), proscribed internationally as a terrorist organisation.
From 1961 to 2011, the Basque separatist group ETA carried out more than 3,300 attacks [6] with total deaths estimated to be 829 to 952. [7] During a similar period, [citation needed] far right terrorist groups were active, opposed to the Spanish transition to democracy. They caused from 66 to 95 deaths. [8] [9] [10]
Several national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist. [1] The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and former national governments, and inter-governmental organizations. Such designations have often had a ...
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