:15:01
so I lay down
and someone came to help me.
:15:03
At that moment, you think
you've been very lucky,
:15:08
and despite
the misfortune of it all,
:15:12
you've been lucky
to get out of it alive.
:15:16
As a result of the explosion
my left leg was amputated.
:15:22
And today, thanks to the good luck
that I had,
:15:26
and with an artificial limb,
:15:28
my life is pretty much the same,
:15:32
but I can't practice
sports anymore.
:15:35
Journalist, writer, music critic,
editor of "La Vanguardia"
:15:40
General Secretary
of United Alava (UA)
:15:46
Doctor in Sociology.
Member of Gesture for Peace.
:15:51
President of the Spanish
Government, 1982-1996,
:15:54
with the Spanish Socialist Party
(PSOE)
:15:56
President of Eusko Alkartasuna (EA)
:16:02
I believe that ETA is
a deep-rooted, political problem,
:16:07
that the Basque conflict
is political,
:16:10
and that if it is resolved
politically
:16:13
its effects will also be resolved.
:16:15
Which is more important,
or more valuable?
:16:17
The individual rights
of a person
:16:20
or the collective rights
of an abstract Basque people?
:16:23
They even deny
the existence of a people,
:16:26
because one thing leads to another.
:16:28
If you accept there is
a Basque people,
:16:30
you accept their collective will,
:16:33
their right to decide
for and about themselves.
:16:37
So the easiest thing
is to deny it.
:16:39
There is no people, no collective
rights, only individual rights.
:16:42
ETA is the last manifestation
of an atavistic people.
:16:45
In 200 years,
every generation of Basques
:16:48
has sufferedjail, exile, torture
and death for political reasons.
:16:52
In Shakespeare's "Macbeth" there
is an image of a lake of blood.
:16:57
After we've committed
the first murder
:16:59
and are submerged in that lake,