![]() ![]() ![]() The security services had achieved that outcome “with tenacity, with work, with dedication, and above all, with a lot of suffering,” he said. He said ETA had been defeated “by the tireless and unstoppable work of the police and the civil guard” and that as a result it had been forced to declare an end to violence without achieving a single one of its aims. Speaking Friday on Spanish National Television, Camacho said: “We have completed a first part of our task, (but) there remains the more complex one, guaranteeing through the strict enforcement of our laws that never again will any generation of Spaniards have to suffer on their backs the weight of a barbarity that slows down our progress and compromises our future.” His remarks come a day after ETA announced a “definitive cessation of its armed activity” in a statement published on the website of Gara, a newspaper the group has used to convey messages in the past.ĮTA is blamed for hundreds of deaths in its decades-long fight for an independent Basque state that it wants carved out of sections of northern Spain and southwestern France. Spanish Interior Minister Antonio Camacho warned Friday that although the Basque separatist group ETA has declared an end to violence, the most difficult task still lies ahead – ensuring no Spaniards suffer the threat of terror attacks in the future. ![]()
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