Spain PM honours ETA victims as force disbands

MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy paid tribute yesterday to victims of the Basque separatist group ETA as it sealed its final dissolution, reports AFP.

Rajoy spoke as ETA was ending its days-long dissolution process at a peace conference in the French Basque Country.

“Now that ETA has at last announced its disappearance, our first thought must be for the victims, for all of them without exception, without distinctions,” Rajoy said in an address.

On April 20 ETA asked forgiveness from its victims for the first time for the “pain” caused by its decades-long campaign of violence.

ETA’s dissolution puts an end to western Europe’s last armed insurgency after more than four decades of violence.

 

Spain PM honours ETA victims as force disbands

MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy paid tribute yesterday to victims of the Basque separatist group ETA as it sealed its final dissolution, reports AFP. Rajoy spoke as ETA was ending its days-long dissolution process at a peace conference in the French Basque Country. Now that ETA has at last announced its disappearance, our first thought must be for the victims, for all of them without exception, without distinctions, Rajoy said in an address. On April 20 ETA asked forgiveness from its victims for the first time for the pain caused by its decades-long campaign of violence. ETAs dissolution puts an end to western Europes last armed insurgency after more than four decades of violence.