Posted on 02/28/2008 3:55:11 PM PST by kronos77
PARIS -- A Basque separatist leader yesterday said that his "struggle was inspired by the Kosovo example".
Gabriel Mueska, who spent 17 years in prison for his membership in the terrorist group ETA, was speaking in a French television debate, dubbed "The death of nations", that also included Serb, Albanian and Flemish separatist representatives, and French analysts.
"The Basques were exceptionally happy after the declaration of Kosovo's independence," he confided.
"I was with the young people when the declaration took place and I did not manage to explain to them why us Basques do not have this possibility for freedom," Mueska said, and added, "the position of those who call themselves the political representatives of France and Europe are completely unclear and criminal."
"There's talk about pain, but us, Basques, also carry our pain for hundreds of years," Meuska complained during the program.
"It's impermissible, and a U.S. military base in Kosovo points to this, that there is so much hypocrisy here. There are many men wearing good suits, who articulate themselves well, and bring misery to many others," he continued.
"We the Basques, one of the oldest nations in Europe, are still fighting for our freedom," Mueska stressed.
"I am here to testify as a Basque from an independent Basque country under French administration that we will never, never give up on freedom and the right to decide about our own future," he told the French public.
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Ping!
As did the American Revolutuon provide impetus for others to follow suit in the right of self determination.
Should Taiwan go back to China?
Source of story is B92.
No need to read any further, just more one-sided Serbian propaganda.
Same with Serbianna.com, too.
Is Taiwan filled with crazy Muslims?
"The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo.We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world. Funny how we just keep digging the hole deeper!"—Maj-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie
Should the Breakaway Republic Of Texas be returned to Mexico?
Should the Breakaway Republic Of Texas be returned to Mexico?
Be real. US comited politial suicide by reckognising Kosovo.
Free Tibet!
LOL!!!
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