Basque militant separatists ETA say they have disarmed

Basque militant separatist group ETA, which waged a bloody campaign for independence from Spain for over half a century, said early on Friday it had given up all its arms and explosives.

The BBC cited what it said was a letter from ETA declaring it had handed all its weapons to civilian go-betweens and was now a disarmed organization.

The move stops short of a full disbanding of the organization that has killed more than 850 people in its quest for an independent state in the mountainous Basque region that incorporates part of northern Spain and south-western France.

The middlemen are due to hand over the weapons to authorities on Saturday in the French city of Bayonne in a process first flagged in March by Basque activists.

The letter, published in full on the BBC website, gave no details on how the handover would be carried out. It is not clear if the process will be formally accepted by the Spanish and French governments.

Spain's ruling Popular Party, which refuses to negotiate with ETA, said the planned handover was a surrender.

"On April 8, ETA will accept its defeat after nearly six years in which it said it would make concessions which never materialized," the PP's representative in the Basque parliament, Alfonso Alonso, told national radio late on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-eta-idUSKBN1790YK?il=0
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Basque militant separatists ETA say they have disarmed

Basque militant separatists ETA say they have disarmed

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