Monday, January 10, 2011

Ceasefire: Spain's government does not trust Eta offer

 How serious the Eta with its new offer for a ceasefire? and to require that the Basque terrorist organization "definitely" and "irrevocable" proclaimed the end of terrorism - The Spanish government remains skeptical. Madrid - The French police officer wearing a bulletproof vest, but the protection it could save your life.

In March, the official in Dammarie-les-Lys, near Paris by a suspected member of the terrorist organization ETA was shot. The official date was their last victim. The question is whether this should remain so - whether the Eta actually once and for all renounce violence. For the Basque terrorists have - again - a cease-fire was declared.


This time the ceasefire is "permanent," "verifiable" and "comprising" be announced three fighters in a video. In the past, however, the Eta, the aim of the independence of the Basque country, is again broken their own promises. In 2006 she graduated with a bomb attack on Madrid airport its self-declared ceasefire.

The government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero responded skeptically according to the latest statement - flowery promises gives you no faith. The ceasefire does not go far enough, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Monday. Eta had "definitely" and "irrevocable" proclaimed the end of terrorism.

This they have failed and now also been found with the same arrogance and scenery as ever. The Spanish newspaper El Mundo commented that this was only acceptable if the ETA would announce its dissolution. Indeed, even in the current video from a laying down of arms is the question. The Spanish government has repeatedly emphasized that for the Eta "only has a destiny: to lay down their arms without conditions," Zapatero said earlier this year.

Negotiate one will not. It was confirmed by Interior Minister Rubalcaba again in late December, when rumors were circulating about a new ceasefire. The organization must replace the three letters by ETA FIN to German: end - after more than 800 murders and four decades of armed struggle.

Crackdown on ETA, the Spanish authorities decided to go since 2006 against the ETA. Several senior members were arrested, hundreds more Etarras fixed, cells destroyed, dismantled weapons caches. To France - that has long been seen as a retreat - can not cancel the Etarras. In May, the military chief was arrested during a major operation in the southwest of the country.

Same time, the government earlier Eta militants who have abgeschwn the murders, offers. The defectors are granted such detention facilities. Also in the Basque country fades, support for ETA, polls show. There has ruled since 2009, Patxi López for the first time a Socialist - had been there for decades, only men of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), the legends, which advocate such as ETA for an independent Basque country.

López, however, has no sympathy for the glorification of terrorists. The photos are from the town halls of Etarras also disappeared from the taverns of sympathizers.

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