La Pelota vasca. La piel contra la piedra
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Can anyone explain this?
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So what ETA is trying to do
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is to break through the Spanish
constitutional process.

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8 innocent victims
and not one objective fulfilled.

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If you look at the dates
of ETA's biggest offensives,

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they coincide with that.
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Under Franco,
ETA killed about 40 people.

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During the democracy, the figure
is 700, almost 800 deaths,

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but of those 800,
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there were almost 100 per year
between 1979 and 1981.

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The best thing to do
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is throw it into an official car
and get them all.

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The Spanish army has lost
more generals and colonels

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than in any other war
it has fought.

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That is a simple fact.
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During the attempted coup
on February 23, 1981,

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many people said that
ETA was responsible

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for the circumstances
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which led officers
to attempt a coup.

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The political-military wing
of ETA then announced

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that it was giving up
the armed struggle

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to avoid provoking
any further coups.

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The children of this land
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will not know
the sound of gunfire.

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They will not know
the effects of bombs.

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Very intelligently,
at that time or soon after,

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the Spanish government
offered reinsertion

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to the young Basques
who had taken refuge in France.

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From the second half of the 80s,
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ETA's decline was
particularly noticeable.

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Among other things, it was
gradually losing popular support

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and finding it more difficult
to recruit new militants.

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A considerable number
of people in the south of France

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discreetly accepted
the Spanish offer of reinsertion.

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ETA had to stop this trend,
possibly for the same reasons,


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