MADRID - The Basque separatist organization ETA announced a cease-fire "general, permanent and verifiable by the international community." With a video and a statement written in three languages (the dialect of Basque, Spanish and English) published on the newspaper Gara, the Basque separatist organization states that it has initiated a "definitive procedure" that will lead to the "end of armed confrontation." In the statement, the Basque terrorist organization stresses the need to provide a solution "to a just and democratic secular political conflict" with "the will of the Basque people as a maximum reference point", an allusion to a possible referendum on independence - hypothesis however, already rejected once by the Spanish Parliament.
The left wing of the Basque separatist 'Abertzale' long press on because Eta announced a permanent ceasefire and verifiable in order to participate in the upcoming Basque regional elections in May. As reported by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the document comes in the aftermath of a demonstration in support of the rights of terrorists and detained four months after a video message sent to the BBC and announcing a truce with the aim of "putting in motion a democratic process "for the independence of the Basque country.
On 28 December, the leader of Batasuna, Arnaldo Otegi, in an interview with U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal had said that the group was ready to abandon the armed struggle and to pursue a peaceful strategy to create an independent Basque state. Otegi, recently acquitted of apologetics for terrorism, is in jail for investigation for the reconstruction of the party leadership, which is considered the political arm of the terrorist organization ETA and therefore banned.
In the interview Otegi spoke of "future", without further explanation, but he remembered how his movement rejects "any violence to achieve political goals." In recent months Otegi had distanced itself from armed struggle, but does not explicitly condemn ETA attacks or break ties with the terrorist group.
It should be noted that - unlike what happened with the IRA and Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland, who shared the dome organization - the "political arm" of ETA has always been in an absolutely subordinate to the military, never failing to act as interlocutor credibility with the government in Madrid.
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