The Basque separatist group ETA today vowed to continue attacks on Spanish political and military targets.
The Basque newspaper
Gara
reported the group said it would only abandon violence "if the wishes of the Basque people" were respected.
ETA said in its latest internal bulletin, Zutabe, that it planned to continue attacks on Spain's "armed occupying forces" in the Basque country.
These included "the Spanish state's economic interests; the oligarchy; political leaders, elected representatives and candidates for the [Madrid-based] Popular Party and the Socialist Party, their headquarters and public events; the Spanish state's administrative structure . . . Spanish 'war media' and the Opus Dei".
ETA has been fighting a violent campaign for more than three decades for an independent Basque homeland comprising parts of northern Spain and southern France.
The right-wing Popular Party (PP) and left-wing opposition Socialists largely dominate the national parliament in Madrid but are in a minority in the Basque regional assembly, which is controlled by the moderate Basque Nationalist Party (PNV).
At the request of the PP and the Socialists, the Spanish Supreme Court in March banned the radical Basque nationalist party Batasuna, which is seen as the political wing of ETA, and all other parties deemed to be related to it.
AFP