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"The Peace Process has ended" can ETA leave now?
In the closing weeks of 2006 an opinion poll in the Basque region found over 65% of people there found a return to terrorism "most likely". In the closing weeks of 2006 Spanish prime minister Zapatero said he would carry personal responsibility if the process failed. In the closing week of 2006 a french youngster was held captive whilst his father's van was hijacked & then filled with explosive & driven to Madrid's airport where it was parked on the 29th. The next day 2 Equadorian migrants went to work just as usual & didn't get out of their cars in time to avoid being the first people murdered by ETA in several years. In the last 24 hours after an awkward silence of 3 days, the minister of the Interior has said the "peace process" is "broken" & "not to be saved".
Diego Estacio Civizapa an Equadorian citizen resident in Madrid killed by ETA on his way to work for the Basque peace process. In the last 12 hours the man noted Belfast cleric Alex Reid called the "Basque Gerry Adams" in Spring time has said "no-one expected the bomb". In the next 50 hours ETA will make a statement, maybe put out their flags & put on the white masks & make a video & tell us all about it. again.
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well I did expect the bomb & most people I knew did too. Maybe that's why we're not in government.
In fact I first raised the possibilty that ETA Would return when their monthly statements got "that terse" in August & though I wrote then I could not "second guess them" by Winter is was obviously "just round the corner".
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77962
I am aware that I have written more words & offered more non-partisan analysis of the Basque situation & that of various nationalisms in the Spanish state in the last years than any other Irish person. But I did it on indymedia ireland, so it doesn't count for much to many. & so.., I am also aware that Ireland has provided 2
authors of good books on the Basque situation before the last ceasefire. One by Paddy Woodworth of the Irish Times & the other by Eoin O Broin of Sinn Fein. ( & both good books too)
Here are some of my favourite articles on the lead-up to the "peace process". Let us not forget that ETA had not killed anyone for a long time before the "ceasefire to end all ceasefires" last March.
"Laying the table" brought us through the parallels between the IRA & ETA processes & multiple ceasefires from 1998 to 2005.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69891
The Absent reminded us of all the The conflict in Ireland from 1969 and 2001which saw 3523 killed & the deaths in the Spanish state from 1960 to December 28th 2006. There were 1278 names. There are now 1280.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74873
The Ceasefire was reported here :-
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75012
I am aware that for a year the optimism felt by both Spanish & Basques that Europe's oldest terrorist conflict finally end with the support of :- Ireland & her government & her Sinn Fein, the UK & Blair, the EU & the praying pope in Rome copper-fastened a change in language & attitude in Ireland's mainstream commercial & state media. Here is how RTE is diplomatically trying to report the latest twist. oh sure lads - the same happened to oirland & engurland with Canary wharf & that bus-bomb in Aldgate & that coffin carried by Adams & that shoot to kill of the lilly white Ra-boy in London for planting a bomb on Charing X road which didn't go off...., sure we all loved the process & lived happily ever after because of it.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0103/spain.html
Because today Batasuna through it's trade union leader Joseba Alvarez says the process is not over. They're still talking to some other constitutional parties about peace & stuff. Yes indeed, they're called EHAK & they were the last fudge to give them representation.
c/f "How the Basques voted & not voted" http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69442
& maybe the process is not over because as all the wise people really know - the process was always about more than ETA. I told you so here http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79970
Well. here goes........................
Batasuna want to contest elections. That's called democratic involvement. They're not going to contest elections after ETA's bomb. The PSOE government are now brought back to the "anti-terrorism pact" (with the PP whose policy seems to have been well reflected in the Judiciary over the last year) or a similar pact with all constitutional parties.
Batasuna want prisoners brought back to the Basque & trials to end & someone to give Mr Ińaki De Juana Chaos a reason to eat food again.....,
Meanwhile:-
The minute of silence in Barcelona (where I live) was disturbed yesterday by right wing elements both jeering the socialist government & blaming the March 11th bomb on ETA. "again".
But the many Ecuadorians resident in Spain & many more back home in Ecuador would just like to think Diego Estacio Civizapa & Carlos Alonso Palate went to Heaven without too much pain & that the men & women in the white masks won't go shooting themselves in the foot & killing south american migrant workers again. & to that effect their own media has just rewritten ETA from a liberation movement to a terrorist grouping & the Ecuadorians have convoked a march for January 13th under the slogan "Peace is possible". Yes it is. It still is. But not with some people at the table.
REST IN PEACE
Carlos Alonso Palate an Equadorian citizen resident in Madrid killed by ETA on his way to work for the Basque peace process.
`Why do you sit out here all alone?' said Alice, not wishing to begin an argument...
Why, because there's nobody with me!' cried Humpty Dumpty. `Did you think I didn't know the answer to that? Ask another.'
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