Unrest, protests in Basque region after separatist crackdown
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Spain's northern Basque region was rocked by urban violence, demonstrations and a strike Thursday in protests against a crackdown on separatist parties ahead of general elections.
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A protest against Argentina's former military dictatorship turned into a clash Tuesday evening between police with tear gas and rubber bullets and demonstrators with Molotov cocktails.
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MADRID - Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protested at an opposition rally in Madrid on Saturday to vent their rage at what they say is the Spanish government's "surrender" to Basque ...Comment
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The separatist group ETA defended its  use of violence in pursuit of Basque independence from Spain on  Monday amid a new campaign of economic sabotage, but also said  it saw a new opportunity to end the conflict.
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In a sea of red and gold Spanish flags, right-wingers staged a mass demonstration in Madrid on Saturday in protest at the release on parole of a Basque separatist jailed for 25 murders.
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MADRID, Oct 4 (IPS) - The Basque separatist group ETA in Spain is on the   verge of disappearing, according to political and social leaders  in Spain  who commented on the arrests of the organisation's  top leaders in France.
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Nearly 200,000 protestors answered a call from Spain's conservative opposition and turned out in Madrid to protest against any talks with the armed Basque separatist group ETA.
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Banned separatist party Batasuna is expected to call for an end to violence in the campaign for Basque independence.
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MADRID (International Herald Tribune) - The Spanish government on Tuesday dismissed a proposal by the head of the Basque regional government to let Basques vote on whether to continue being part of Spain. The plan presented to Prime Minister JosÃ© Luis RodrÃ­guez Zapatero by Juan JosÃ© Ibarretxe, head of the Basque government, revived debate about the status of the Basque region amid a crackdown by the authorities on the separatist movement's radicals as well as questions of nationhood threatening to dominate general elections in March.  Zapatero rejected the proposed referendum as unconstitutional and said it was a rehash of a similar plan, floated by Ibarretxe in 2005, that was rejected by Parliament. That plan called for Basques to vote on becoming a "free associated state" within Spain and for separate representation before bodies like the European Union. Ibarretxe, a leading member of the Basque Nationalist Party, which governs the region as part of a coalition, denied that a referendum would be illegal and vowed to press ahead with it in October 2008. He said it would be the first step in a "Basque-style Downing Street process," referring to the 1993 declaration by the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom that paved the way for peace in the British province of Northern Ireland.
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The release from prison of a key member of the Basque separatist group has divided the country.
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The armed Basque separatist group ETA said Tuesday it was ending the &quot;permanent&quot; ceasefire declared in March last year, accusing the Spanish government of persecuting the group rather than negotiate.
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BORDEAUX, France  - Police arrested the suspected  political leader of the Basque guerrilla group ETA, detained 20  other people and seized weapons in a swoop on the outlawed  group in France and Spain on Sunday, officials said.
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The president of the Basque region and two members of Spain's ruling Socialist party were ordered Tuesday to stand trial for meeting with a banned separatist party Â a ruling that was an embarrassment for the government in Madrid.
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unveiled a plan to end the long-running conflict in the region, saying it wants peace talks. demilitarising the 36-year-old conflict and a referendum in the Basque country on its future.
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The Basque separatist group, Eta, says it will continue its violent campaign for self-determination.
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VITORIA, Spain  - A Basque proposal for virtual  independence from Spain gained vital and unexpected support in  the regional parliament on Thursday from Batasuna, a party  banned as the political wing of armed separatists ETA.
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain  - A Basque nationalist party  banned by Spain as ETA's political wing unveiled a plan to end  the long-running conflict in the region on Sunday, saying it  wanted peace talks.