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Ertzaina (Basque Policeman)
Member of Ertzaintza Trade Union
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At first, the "Kale Borroka"
set fire to cash dispensers,
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they blocked streets...
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Recently, they set fire
to two "ertzainas".
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After attacking
the homes of councilors
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they turned their attention
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to the brothers, sisters, cousins
of those people.
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This is because, at the beginning,
it was easy for them,
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due to an error on our part,
an error by the Ertzaina,
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when we didn't put a firm end
to that movement
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as we should have done
at the time.
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There is a small minority
of young Basques
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which has been indoctrinated,
in the strongest sense of the word,
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with what is basically one idea,
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that Euskadi is the homeland
of the Basques,
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and it is presently
being subjugated
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by the French
and Spanish states
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which are preventing them from
realizing themselves as Basques.
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Former Cultural Counselor,
the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV)
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In Spain there is
a dispersion policy
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with a certain group of prisoners.
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We did disperse them.
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And the PNV agreed to
a phase of that operation.
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When the ETA prisoners
were held in groups,
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the social pressure that was
exercised in the prisons
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made it impossible
to achieve any reinsertion.
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The ultimate aim
of a prison sentence
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in the Spanish penal legislation
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is still reinsertion.
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It's a different matter
if that aim can't be achieved.
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In that case,
humane criteria demand
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that the prisoners are
brought to the Basque Country.
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A prisoner, whether criminal,
political, Basque, non-Basque,
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has the right to serve his sentence
close to his home area,
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because that is set down
in international law.
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In some cases, they are imposing
additional punishment
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by sending
the prisoners far away,