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	CNN.com - Court move for total Batasuna ban - September 3, 2002
		Batasuna shares with ETA the goal of an independent Basque country but denies it is the political wing of ETA.
		Batasuna supporters said on Tuesday they would go ahead with street demonstrations called for this Saturday in Bilbao, the biggest Basque city, and for Sunday in San Sebastian, a bastion of Basque nationalism, even though the Basque region's interior department has prohibited the marches.
		Batasuna has been criticised by mainstream politicians for not condemning an ETA bomb on August 4 that killed a six-year-old girl in Santa Pola.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/09/03/spain.batasuna/index.html (525 words)

	Basque separatist party rejects overture from Spain's prime minister - iht,europe,Spain Batasuna - Europe - ...
		The Batasuna party, considered the political wing of the armed separatist group ETA, said the remarks Thursday by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero were a diversionary tactic to mask a crisis in the peace process launched six months ago with ETA's announcement of a "permanent" cease-fire.
		Batasuna made no mention of renouncing violence and ETA as a condition for regaining legal status and taking part in the all-party talks, as demanded by Zapatero.
		Batasuna is seen as worried that if it takes the big step of renouncing ETA and violence, it might still end up facing criminal charges.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/10/13/europe/EU_GEN_Spain_Batasuna.php (519 words)

	Guardian \| Beating Batasuna
		Spain's decision yesterday to outlaw Batasuna, the political wing of the Basque separatist movement Eta, is the culmination of a 25-year battle to limit the operations of the party.
		Batasuna has been closely allied to Eta, and many known terrorists began their career in Batasuna or its youth wing, Jarrai, by taking part in the nightly kale borroka, street violence, when gangs rampage through Basque towns and villages.
		Batasuna leaders blamed the August 10 bomb in the Costa Blanca resort of Santa Pola, in which two died, on the government for ignoring Basque demands.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4489138-103674,00.html (892 words)

	ETA bomb defused as police shut Basque party offices - smh.com.au
		Batasuna, which regularly gains between 10 and 20 per cent of the vote in Basque regional elections, has been heavily criticised for not condemning ETA attacks outright, particularly a car bomb on August 4 that killed a man and a six-year-old girl.
		Batasuna says Madrid's campaign against it is politically motivated and part of a wider plan to undermine the separatist left in the Basque regional Parliament, where the party has seven seats.
		Batasuna has regularly voiced regret for ETA bloodshed but refused to condemn it, insisting that it is an inevitable outcome of the struggle against a "history of oppression" by Madrid and Paris to block the creation of a separate Basque nation.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/27/1030053058964.html (826 words)

	Basque party outlawed over terror links - theage.com.au
		Batasuna leaders denied that the party was the political wing of Eta, and the party lawyer, Jone Goirizelaia, said it would appeal against the ruling, possibly to the European Court of Justice.
		Batasuna leaders reacted angrily and in several towns across the Basque region, members blockaded their party offices.
		Batasuna has seven seats in the 75-member regional parliament and almost 900 town councillors in the three Basque provinces and neighbouring Navarra.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/08/27/1030053058535.html (451 words)

	Euskal Herria Journal \| A Basque Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		For Batasuna, building of peace means speaking of rights and work in favour of these ones, that means, to create a scenario which allows the full and integral exercise of the rights we deserve as Basque citizens.
		Batasuna, basing itself from its democratic position, states clearly that has abandoned, abandons and will abandon the idea of imposing its own political agenda to build a peace scenario in the Basque Country.
		Batasuna wants to declare clearly and strongly its deepest respect to the Basque Country's plurality considering it as a determining factor of cultural and political enrichment.
	www.ehj-navarre.org /navarre/navarre_batasuna020126.html (1322 words)

	CNN.com - Party linked to ETA faces ban - June 5, 2002
		Batasuna is staunchly pro-independence, but maintains it is not the political wing of ETA
		Dozens of Batasuna members have been arrested over the years as suspected collaborators of ETA, which is listed as a terrorist group by the European Union and the U.S. Batasuna is not on those lists of terrorist organisations.
		Batasuna has already changed its name twice in recent years, shedding the earlier names of Herri Batasuna, and then Euskal Herritarrok, in an attempt to avoid legal problems with Spanish authorities.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/06/05/spain.batasuna (468 words)

	CNN.com - Basque separatists remain defiant - August 28, 2002
		Enforcing a Spanish judge's order to shut down Batasuna, Basque police completed the closure by forcing their way into the party's headquarters in the Basque town of San Sebastian late on Tuesday.
		The swoop was part of an unprecedented Spanish crackdown on Batasuna because of its alleged links to armed group ETA.
		Batasuna received 143,000 votes, or 10 percent of the total, in last year's Basque parliamentary elections.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/08/28/batasuna.ban/index.html (471 words)

	BATASUNA BANNED: THE DISSOLUTION OF POLITICAL PARTIES UNDER THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
		Batasuna has indicated that it will appeal the Constitutional Court’s decision to the ECHR, alleging a violation of its freedom of association under Article 11 of the Convention.
		91 Spain’s proof of Batasuna’s actions in the context of Basque separatist violence is similar to evidence that the Commission deemed sufficient to justify the ban on Sinn Fein’s statements in Purcell.
		Batasuna’s situation is not like that of the United Communist Party or the People’s Labour Party because Batasuna officials are not merely seeking to debate a controversial political matter or criticizing governmental action.
	www.bc.edu /schools/law/lawreviews/meta-elements/journals/bciclr/27_1/02_TXT.htm (2989 words)

	Banned Basque demonstration attacked by police
		However, Batasuna’s perspective is limited to the impact of the legislation on the Basque region.
		Batasuna is seeking an accommodation with the central government that gives it a place in a devolved regional government similar to that achieved by Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland.
		Batasuna stated that the march was “within the context of the new paths that need to be built on the road to democracy and peace.”
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/aug2005/bata-a25_prn.shtml (930 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Profile: Batasuna
		Basque separatist party Batasuna is accused of acting as a political front for the Basque paramilitary group, ETA - a charge it denies.
		The decision to outlaw Batasuna, which must be approved by the Spanish supreme court, would prevent the party from standing in municipal elections in 2003.
		Batasuna leaders and deputies have repeatedly found themselves in trouble with the courts.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2211696.stm (341 words)

	Batasuna Banned - the lessons for Scotland. - by Gerry Cairns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It is also fair to say that Batasuna activists have been the victims of illicit Spanish state terrorism.
		Despite the propaganda Batasuna still command the support of between 10 —15% of the Basque population especially among the youth.
		When King Juan Carlos and his wife visited Euskadi in 1982 the PNV refused to participate in the demonstrations that took place while Batasuna activists were to the forefront in opposing the visit.
	srsm.port5.com /redduster/Batasuna_banne.html (913 words)

	Spain starts on the road to ban Batasuna \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		Banning Batasuna, the mayor says, is an insult to the townsfolk, who have given the party six of the 11 council seats.
		The new law, designed specifically for Batasuna, allows the banning of parties which encourage "hatred, violence, and social confrontation", challenge the legitimacy of democratic institutions or "promote a culture of civil confrontation".
		Last month she refused to step on to the town hall balcony for the beginning of Lasarte's fiestas because radicals frequently throw things at her and she was once knocked unconscious by a stone.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,779905,00.html (1171 words)

	No to the outlawing of Batasuna
		The reactionary policies of the PP The main force behind the outlawing of Batasuna is the Popular Party, whose main sources of inspiration are the policies of Thatcher in Britain in the 1980s and the current model of Bush and Berlusconi.
		In the case of Spain, ETA, with brutal attacks like that of Santa Pola [this summer in which a 6 year old girl died and bombs were planted in a beach and in a burger joint], gives the PP the perfect excuse to carry out these measures with social support.
		The outlawing of Batasuna has been prepared for years, as it was shown by the arrest of the whole of its national leadership because of an election broadcast, the closing down of [the abertzale left daily paper] EGIN, and the progressive outlawing of different organisations of the abertzale left like Jarrai, Ekin, and so on.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/batasuna_ban.html (2935 words)

	Basque Country, Batasuna and ban - Indymedia Ireland
		Batasuna (the left wing pro-independence political party in the Basque Country) is about the join the ever growing list of illegal organisations in the Basque Country.
		In 1998 22 members of the national executive of Batasuna were imprisoned for collaborating with an armed organisation.
		This time Garzon argued that because Herri Batasuna showed two members of ETA speaking about their proposal for peace in a promo video in the run-up to the election then the whole executive were guilty of collaboration.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/6306 (1141 words)

	GARA \| Ilegalización de Batasuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Batasuna (Unity), the left-wing pro-independence political formation outlawed by the Spanish Supreme Court on March 17th 2003, was officially founded in Iruñea on June 23rd 2001.
		From the very start, special emphasis was placed on the national dimension of the formation, which held its first National Assembly in Donibani Garazi (Nafarroa Beherea) on October 20th 2001.
		That meeting served to outline Batasuna's political proposals, which focused on two aims: resolution of the political conflict and the national construction of Euskal Herria.
	www.gara.net /dosierrak/euskalgatazka/ileg_batasuna/index.htm (458 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Batasuna banned permanently
		A three-year suspension was imposed on the radical party in August 2002 on the grounds that Batasuna was part of the "terrorist network" of the armed separatist group ETA.
		Batasuna lost an appeal to have the temporary ban overturned in October.
		Batasuna denies persistent reports that it is ETA's political wing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2857437.stm (328 words)

	TIME.com: Ban Has Basques Bracing for Bloodshed -- Page 1
		By outlawing Batasuna, the political arm of the separatist paramilitary organization ETA, the Spanish government may be headed for confrontation — not only with the extremists, but also with moderate nationalist majority in the Basque Country.
		The new clampdown on Batasuna, however, may have more to do with the mainstream parties' bid to anchor their electoral support elsewhere in Spain than with finding a solution to the Basque conflict.
		The mainstream Basque politicians want to defeat ETA and Batasuna by political means, continuing to isolate them at the ballot box — and they fear that forcing them out of the political process amid a climate of hostility to Basque nationalism may win new sympathy among Basques for the extremists.
	www.time.com /time/world/article/0,8599,345821,00.html (888 words)

	Batasuna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Batasuna voters have been encouraged to vote for other abertzale (Basque Nationalist) parties since the banning.
		Its constituent parties had been called together by senior Basque nationalist Telesforo de Monzón in a 1977 meeting called "the table of Altsasu." Herri Batasuna's founding convention was held in Lekeitio, home of Santiago Brouard who was then the leader of HASI (Herriko Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea or Revolutionary Socialist People's Party).
		Following the February 2006 deaths of ETA members Igor Miguel Angulo Iturrate, 32, (due to an apparent suicide by hanging) and Ricardo Sainz Olmos, 41, (by a heart attack), public commemorations of the dead prisoners were banned by Basque authorities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batasuna (2187 words)

	Banning of Basque Party an Outrage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Though Batasuna is known for its sympathy with Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, it is a political party, not a guerilla movement, with the demonstrated support of a significant section of the Basque people.
		It is clear that the ruling class of Spain had no arguments with which to challenge the advocacy by Batasuna of a free, united and socialist Euskadi, so instead they have sought to silence this voice of Basque militancy through banning the political party and moving to arrest many of its members.
		"The IRSP reiterate their deepest solidarity with Batasuna and all those struggling for national liberation and socialism in the Basque lands and condemn the Spanish government for their recent actions in depriving Batasuna of its legal status and its baseless arrests of the leadership of the party.
	www.irsm.org /statements/irsp/archive/020830.html (586 words)

	Equipo Nizkor - The right to peaceful protest must be upheld in the Basque Country
		On 2 September, following the suspension of Batasuna, an investigating judge issued a court order that appeared to widen the scope for the prohibition of "any gathering or demonstration", either by groups or by individuals, held with reference to Batasuna* or its suspension.
		The judge stated that the order suspending Batasuna's activities included those that were either directly or indirectly driven or inspired by Batasuna, or its members or leaders.
		The Batasuna coalition, formerly known as Herri Batasuna and subsequently as Euskal Herritarrok, was formed in 1978 and since then has operated as a legal parliamentary party.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/espana/doc/ai12sep02.html (678 words)

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