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Let's look at culture first.
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The enemy reacted strongly,
harshly.
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They couldn't tolerate
any cultural activity.
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Immediately, a section,
I don't know how large,
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of the clergy
in Guipuzcoa and Vizcaya,
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and parishioners too,
sympathized with ETA.
:27:20
The enemy's reaction was out
of proportion. We were persecuted.
:27:24
That forced us to move on
to the political phase.
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They helped organize meetings.
They provided sacristies
:27:30
and retreat houses
where they could meetings.
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Then the first interrogations began,
:27:38
the first beatings,
the first signs of torture,
:27:42
and that forced us to move on
to the final, military phase.
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In December 1973,
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ETA assassinated
Admiral Carrero Blanco,
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recently chosen by Franco
to be his successor.
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He flew, he flew.
Carrero flew!
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We were always very careful
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to say and to state
and to write ceaselessly
:28:23
that the military arm
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would always follow
the orders of the political head
:28:28
and not the reverse, which is,
unfortunately, what happened.
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Professor of Political Science
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Expert in the Terrorism
Prevention Branch of the U.N.
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The militants who joined ETA
in the 70s
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were, on average, 22 years old.
:28:48
The immense majority were male.
:28:50
They were mainly from Guipuzcoa,
and from those regions
:28:55
with many small
and medium sized towns,
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regions where more than
40% of the people