TERROR ORGANISATIONS IN THE OTHER COUNTRIES
Terror Organisations in Europe
ETA (Spain)
Bask Separatist Movement (ETA) was founded by the militants who separated from EKIN group, in 1962. They claim that they are fighting for freedom of the Bask Region, in Spain. Since its beginning, the leftist students of the University of Madrid formed guerrilla units. Every unit is made of approximately 200 students. They adopt hit and run tactic and they combat with the police. In fact, the aim of this terrorist movement was to end Franco Regime in Spain and replace it with a socialist system, but today it aims to separate Bask from Spain and to establish a free state. The Spanish government has taken serious measurements against terrorism in Bask and by bringing the terrorist to justice, trailed them in military courts. Spanish jurisprudence convicts the terrorists with major punishments.
Aims and Methods
ETA struggles for freedom of BASK and its targets are police officers, soldiers, and officials. France has decided to deport all the ETA members in 1986 and the French living in Spain became another target of ETA.
International Connections
IRA is one of the terrorist organisations, which is in close relations with ETA. These two leftist terrorist organisations signed an agreement in April 1972 and Breton Freedom Front has joined this agreement too. This agreement was made to determine the political views of these three provincial movements. After 1972, ETA has divided into three wings, the Moderates, political wing and the military wing. This structure is very similar to IRA’s structure. The military wings of both organisations are in close relations and the members of both organisations meet very often.
ETA has many connections with other terrorist organisations. For example, in August 1983, the representatives of Katalonia Tierra Libra, Bask, ETA, Corsica Liberation Movement, IRA, and KADEK have held a meeting. In 1970’s the ETA militants were trained in El Fetih Camp in Palestine and in the same year THKO/THKP-C militants were there as well. Moreover, DEV-SOL, TKP/ML and ETA have made a joint declaration in Hamburg on 2 January 1984.
Resemblance with KADEK
In the terrorist activities of 1987, ETA exploded cars, made armed robberies, collected money from the rich under the name of “Revolution Tax”, it proposed cease fire to the government on 30 January 1988, and demanded to solve the conflicts around a table but began its violent actions again, it killed civil people without considering they are children or women... These are very similar to the actions of KADEK.
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