:33:00
Professor of Political Science.
:33:02
Founder of HB and HASI
(Left wing pro-independence group)
:33:05
I was immersed in a situation
of political violence.
:33:08
People close to me were
killed by the police or tortured.
:33:14
That makes you see violence
as an imposed necessity.
:33:19
It makes you more radical.
:33:20
Given the attacks
we suffered as a people,
:33:23
there are various ways
of fighting.
:33:25
We can reconstruct ourselves
as a people,
:33:27
or stand up to those who are
opposed to that reconstruction,
:33:31
without attacking any other people.
:33:33
From its conception,
ETA cannot accept
:33:37
that the Basque problem
can be resolved
:33:39
within the framework
of the Spanish constitution
:33:41
and with an autonomy limited
to three of what they consider
:33:46
the seven provinces
of Euskal Herria.
:33:59
FRENCH BASQUE COUNTRY
:34:02
Can anyone explain this?
:34:04
So what ETA is trying to do
:34:05
is to break through the Spanish
constitutional process.
:34:09
8 innocent victims
and not one objective fulfilled.
:34:13
If you look at the dates
of ETA's biggest offensives,
:34:17
they coincide with that.
:34:18
Under Franco,
ETA killed about 40 people.
:34:21
During the democracy, the figure
is 700, almost 800 deaths,
:34:26
but of those 800,
:34:28
there were almost 100 per year
between 1979 and 1981.
:34:32
The best thing to do
:34:33
is throw it into an official car
and get them all.
:34:44
The Spanish army has lost
more generals and colonels
:34:47
than in any other war
it has fought.
:34:50
That is a simple fact.
:34:53
During the attempted coup
on February 23, 1981,
:34:56
many people said that
ETA was responsible
:34:59
for the circumstances