Timeline - Key events in history of Basque separatists ETA Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero dismissed that gesture as meaningless unless the group turned in its arms. Thursday’s declaration is a significant shift for ETA, whose goal was to carve out an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southern France, and takes the group far beyond the permanent cease-fire it announced in January. Three masked ETA members sat behind a table to read the statement, raising their fists in the air at the end of the video. “ETA calls upon the Spanish and French governments to open a process of direct dialogue with the aim of addressing the resolution of the conflict,” it added. “ETA has decided the definitive cessation of its armed activity,” the group said in a statement through Basque-language newspaper Gara and an online video.
A frame grab shows the video declaration of three members of Basque separatist group ETA Octocalling a definitive end to 50 years of armed struggle which has cost the lives of at least 850 people, published in Basque language newspaper Gara.
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