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	Ertzaintza -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ertzaintza is the (The force of policemen and officers) police force of the (additional info and facts about Basque Country) Basque Country, one of the (additional info and facts about autonomous communities of Spain) autonomous communities of Spain.
		The origins of the current Ertzaintza, as a police force pertaining to the Basque Country, can be traced back to the old municipal (Civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army) militias, which were popular organizations at the service of local bodies, created to satisfy the need for public safety.
		Ertzaintza is not accepted by leftist (additional info and facts about Basque nationalists) Basque nationalists, who deride it as zipaioak, (" (additional info and facts about Sepoy) Sepoys", an indigenous force serving the colonial power).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Er/Ertzaintza.htm (1005 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ertzaintza
		The Spanish transition to democracy or new bourbon restoration was the era when Spain moved from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to a liberal democratic state.
		Because Navarre, during the events surrounding Spain's 1978 Constitution, ended up with the status of Autonomous Community and was not lumped in with the autonomous community called Euskadi/the Basque Country, its police force remains independent of the Ertzaintza in both the operational and political sense.
		Following the standardization of Basque in the 1960s, the name of the restored force became "Ertzaintza" from the respelled herri and zain (compare with artzain, "sheepherder" from ardi + zain), with the suffix -tza.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ertzaintza (1784 words)

	Stoptortura :: TAT
		As far as the treatment suffered by those arrested by the Ertzaintza (we have 26 reports of ill treatment), we find that there has been an increase both in the quantity and in the nature of the treatment dispensed to those arrested and subjected to incommunication.
		Up to now, we had observed how the treatment suffered by detainees at the hands of the Ertzaintza was mainly characterized by psychological ill treatment, with few cases of physical ill treatment, but during 2002, we find that they have combined both methods, increasing physical ill treatment.
		Among the methods of torture those arrested by the Ertzaintza have reported, we find that they have concentrated on obtaining the physical exhaustion of the detainees, by making them remain in abnormal postures during the days of incommunicado arrest.
	www.stoptortura.com /tortura-ertzaintzaI.php (588 words)

	Berria.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The three were arrested by Ertzaintza officers for participating in disturbances after the tribute organised in the Larratxo area of Altza in Donostia (San Sebastian) for the alleged ETA member Imanol Gomez, who died in France last week (*).
		They say the Ertzaintza officers’ statement is the only basis against the young people and that the lawyers have not had access to it.
		Aralar felt the “violence” used by the Ertzaintza officers was “incomprehensible and totally unacceptable” and criticised their action.
	www.berria.info /english/ikusi.php?id=1643 (566 words)

	ETA Suspected in Killing of Two Basque Police Officers
		The two deaths bring to 13 the number of Basque police officers killed by ETA since the creation of the Basque police force, the Ertzaintza, in 1982.
		The 7,000-strong Ertzaintza, controlled by the semi-autonomous regional government, is considered a symbol of self-rule in the Basque country.
		In the organization's first attack on the police force, a police officer was killed and a second injured by a car bomb in Hernani at the beginning of March.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=710 (597 words)

	TIME Europe \| Spain: Battle of the Basques \| 6/12/2000
		Frustrated members of the Guardia Civil claim that the Ertzaintza — created in the mid-1980s because the Guardia Civil was seen as an instrument of the dictator General Francisco Franco —; is being kept on a leash by the Basque Nationalist Party, the PNV, which controls the regional government.
		Cooperation has disappeared to the point that Spanish security officials are sometimes tailed by the Ertzaintza, according to a recent claim by a member of CESID, Spain's military intelligence organization, which recently excluded the PNV from an intelligence briefing to Spain's political parties.
		After penetrating Ertzaintza communications with his own radio, the terrorist was able to give false orders to the Basque units, then coolly drive through the cordon his instructions had weakened.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2000/0612/basque.html (1398 words)

	CASE NO.2040/SPAIN(2000): Complaint against the Government of Spain by: ERNE
		The purpose of the present agreement is to develop trade union rights and promote the exercise of trade union activities within the Ertzaintza on the basis of the provision contained in article 101.3 of the Basque Police Force Act.
		Thus, the provision contained in article 100 regarding the appointment of stewards for trade union sections of organizations having elected representatives remains unfulfilled on account of difficulties in the implementation of the mechanism foreseen by the Act.
		Without prejudice to the urgent need to take definitive action to resolve the existing problems, it is necessary to call upon the Department of the Interior to issue temporary regulations permitting the signatory organizations of this agreement to appoint their shop stewards for the purpose of setting up the union sections foreseen by the Act.
	www.oit.org.pe /sindi/english/casos/esp/esp200001.html (4148 words)

	Euskal Herria Journal \| A Basque Journal \| Navarre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Killed in a ambush by the Ertzaintza (the regional police of three of the four Basque territories in Spain) in Bilbo on August 29, 1991.
		All three gun shots had been fired from a distance of 25 centimeters and when the victim was lying on the floor.
		Killed by the Ertzaintza in Loiu on November 18, 1994.
	www.ehj-navarre.org /navarre/na_repression_eeek2.html (995 words)

	Berria.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The three young people arrested by Ertzaintza officers in the Donostia (San Sebastian) suburb of Altza will be taken to the Spanish National Criminal Court in Madrid.
		The Ertzaintza have accused the three young people they arrested of “the crime of terrorism linked to an attack and public disturbances”.
		When the Ertzaintza officers fired their weapons, they were not surrounded by people and Askatasuna says that at least one of the young people arrested was apprehended outside where the events took place.
	www.berria.info /english/ikusi1.php?id=1641 (480 words)

	A-Infos #1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Town Hall is attacked with molotov cocktails and there is figth with Ertzaintza.
		A Young man is condemned to 1 year imprisoned charged with attacking an Ertzaintza van.
		A cop shoot his gun in the air after caught a child (the cop put his gun on child's head) after the child threw to him a balloom full of water.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/2838/ainfos1e.html (2526 words)

	NIEUWSOVERZICHT
		According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs the bomb was meant for the Ertzaintza and had to go off while dismantling it.
		The Ertzaintza’s found a document that explained they were the targets.
		At the 17th of June the Ertzaintza arrested 6 people for “street violence” and at the 24th of June they arrested two more.
	www.baskinfo.org /pages/nieuws/engels/2003/week23_english_2003.html (1254 words)

	portland imc - 2003.08.13 - Break The Chains workshop on the Basque Struggle
		The Basque regional police (Ertzaintza) goes in with force, in Bilbao the city hall is stormed and 150 people are beaten out.
		While the mayor was sworn in, the Basque police Ertzaintza attacked the 100 protesters outside, who were having a peaceful sit-in.
		In Hernani, where the also outlawed local branch of the AuB won the elections and where the left independentists were the biggest for years and years and also have the mayor, the installation was cancelled because of the occupation of the city hall.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/08/269758.shtml (4501 words)

	CPT Report: Spain: Visit 10/04/1994 - 22/04/1994
		The Ertzaintza ("people caring force") is the police force under the authority of the Basque Autonomous Government.
		Some policing functions are carried out by the Ertzaintza exclusively, while others are performed by other law enforcement agencies or by two or more of them in co-operation.
		The CPT recommends that the remarks in paragraph 50 be taken into account when persons are detained at the Sestao and Tolosa stations, as well as in the operation of existing Ertzaintza establishments in general (2) and in the construction of new ones.
	www.cpt.coe.int /documents/esp/1996-09-inf-eng-2.htm (18008 words)

	CNN.com - Basque clashes after party ban - September 15, 2002
		The raid by the regional Ertzaintza police was the first confrontation between Basques and Basque police since Batasuna was banned on Monday for its alleged links to the armed group ETA.
		The Ertzaintza takes orders from the semi-autonomous Basque government, which is controlled by the Basque Nationalist Party, or PNV.
		The party voted against criminalising Batasuna and is accused by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar of being soft on ETA.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/08/27/batasuna.offices (569 words)

	Terrorist Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The attack on the Basque region's own police force marked a rare departure from ETA's practice of targeting mainly Spanish national police and Civil Guard personnel.
		The 7,000-strong Basque police force, known by its Basque name Ertzaintza, and controlled by the semi-autonomous regional government, is considered a symbol of self-rule in the Basque country.
		Until several months before the bombing, the Ertzaintza had managed to stay out of the fray -- so much so, in fact, that Madrid had criticized the regional government of the largely autonomous Basque region for restraining the Ertzaintza from cracking down on ETA militants.
	www.ict.org.il /inter_ter/attackdet.cfm?IncidentID=1904 (254 words)

	euskalherria.com - GARA - Batasuna calls the Ertzaintza's actions on Sunday 'a scandal' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The party of the Basque nationalist Left warned the Gasteiz Government's councillor of the interior, Javier Balza, to 'take note' of the consequences of the police intervention and make sure 'this doesn't happen again, because it is not the way to go in a [peace] process'.
		The Batasuna spokesman called it 'a scandal' that this should be the outcome when thousands of people are trying 'to demonstrate in favour of a peace process'.
		Monday's news was dominated by analyses of Sunday's events, when a demonstration in Donostia acclaiming 'Now the people, now peace' was greeted by an onslaught from the Ertzaintza police, as a result of which dozens of people were hurt, some seriously, and seven were arrested.
	www.gara.net /english/weekly/20050815/art127967.php (559 words)

	Spain News - 30 hooded protesters stage street battle with regional police officers
		A group of 30 hooded protesters staged a battle with agents of the regional Basque police force (Ertzaintza) last night.
		Upon the Ertzaintza’s arrival, the makeshift weapons were turned towards the officers, and the agents fought back with riot control devices.
		After the face-off, the Ertzaintza patrolled the city streets and identified some of the aggressors, although no arrests have so far been made.
	www.thinkspain.com /news-spain/6299 (430 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The regional police force, the Ertzaintza, closed the main offices of the Batasuna party in the cities of Bilbao, San Sebastian, and Vitoria a day after the order issued by the nation's chief anti-terrorism judge, Baltasar Garzon.
		However, an Ertzaintza spokesman said no one was hospitalized or arrested in any of the confrontations.
		Although his Basque Nationalist Party condemns ETA violence â” and Ertzaintza police have been targeted by ETA gunmen â” the party went against the consensus Monday in a 295-10 parliamentary vote to outlaw Batasuna altogether.
	www.dailyiowan.com /news/2002/08/28/Nation/Police.Close.Basque.Offices-263503.shtml (619 words)

	Explosion injures political activist - The Daily Vidette - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A spokesman for the Ertzaintza regional police force said the attack bore the hallmarks of ETA, which has frequently used car bombs in its 34-year campaign for Basque independence.
		Madina is a member of the Elkarri social group, which has been working for years to promote dialogue in the Basque region and to resolve the conflict peacefully.
		The last were attributed to it on Nov. 23 when two Ertzaintza officers on traffic duty were shot dead.
	www.dailyvidette.com /news/2002/02/20/News/Explosion.Injures.Political.Activist-187266.shtml (542 words)

	Euskal Herria Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bizkaiko Foru Aldundiaren eraikina apirilaren 16an okupatu zuten eta hilabete bat beranduago berau 24 ordutan uzteko agindua jaso zuten gazteek.
		Ordutik hona Ertzaintza hainbat aldiz hurbildu da baina desalojatzeko agindu gabe.
		Goizeko 7:00etan sartu da Ertzaintza eraikinean eta "erresistentzia pasiboa" egin dute bertan zeudenak.
	www.euskalherria.info /print.php?sid=3403 (184 words)

	GARA \| The Basque Country weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Xabier Mendiguren, the secretary general of Kontseilua, let the delegation of the Council of Europe in charge of watching over the fulfilment of the European charter for Regional and Minority languages know of his concern for the situation in different ambits.
		He also dealt with the situation in the Ertzaintza “that gives the impression that it can impose the use of Spanish”.
		With regard to the situation in the Administration he stressed that “in areas where the population is made up of 30% Euskaldunes (Basque speakers), the Administration hasn't achieved more than 12% Basque speakers”.
	www.euskalherria.com /english/ast24052004/2.php (547 words)

	Informativos Telecinco.com - Nacional - Imputado un presunto delito de terrorismo a tres detenidos por los incidentes ...
		La Ertzaintza imputa un presunto delito de terrorismo, otro de atentado a agentes de la autoridad y un tercero de desórdenes públicos a los tres jóvenes detenidos hoy en los altercados registrados en San Sebastián tras el homenaje al presunto etarra Imanol Gómez, informó el departamento vasco de Interior.
		En el transcurso de estos incidentes los componentes de una patrulla de la Ertzaintza de paisano se vieron obligados a efectuar varios disparos al aire para repeler la agresión de un grupo de encapuchados que les arrojó artefactos incendiarios y piedras.
		Los incidentes, en los que no se produjeron heridos, según explicó la Ertzaintza, comenzaron minutos después de las 14:30 horas de esta tarde al término del homenaje que se tributó al presunto etarra Imanol Gómez, fallecido en un accidente de tráfico ocurrido en Francia.
	www.informativos.telecinco.es /ertzainas/agresiones/sansebastian/dn_9101.htm (382 words)

	euskalherria.com - GARA - 'Incomunicado' Ertzaintza interrogations will be videotaped (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Gasteiz government 'home office' has announced that video cameras are to be installed in access areas and jail cells, and that in the future ertzaintza (autonomous community police) interrogation sessions with detainees in isolation will be recorded.
		Mr Balza explained that 'the videotaping policy already operates for detainees not held in isolation'.
		He said that, complying with recommendation number 8/1999 by the autonomous community's ombudsman, the Interior Department had installed, in all ertzaintza police stations, 'a system of control based on cameras located in the corridors of the jail area'.
	www.gara.net /english/weekly/20050926/art134007.php (448 words)

	GARA \| The Basque Country weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Representatives of the tripartite government ratified what had been agreed by the committee, that had already positioned themselves against her appearance.
		Javier Balza, who appeared at the request of SA on April 1st, said that the attempt to link the death of Sanchiz to the actions of the Ertzaintza was "a deliberate and coarse set-up" of the Autonomous police.
		During his appearance the Interior minister refrained from mentioning the family of the deceased and centred his criticisms on the representatives of the left-wing nationalist movement who he accused of "manipulation" and of "having treacherously lied".
	www.euskalherria.com /english/ast26042004/5.php (540 words)

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