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    A picture grabbed on Gara.net shows three ETA militants dressed in black shirts with white hoods over the heads and black berets making a declaration in an undisclosed location. Armed Basque separatist group ETA declared Thursday the

    Basque movement ETA declares end to armed campaign in Spain

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  • Roses in memory of Basque Socialist Party politician on 11th anniversary of his assassination

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    Raindrops are seen on roses during a memorial ceremony for Basque Socialist Party (PSE) politician Fernando Buesa Blanco on the 11th anniversary of his assassination in Vitoria on Feb. 22. Buesa, along with bodyguard Jorge Diez Elorza, was killed by a car bomb set off by armed Basque separatists, ETA.

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    Basque premier Patxi Lopez, bottom left, and politician Jose Antonio Pastor lay an arrangement of roses at a monolith on the 11th anniversary of the assassination of Fernando Buesa in Vitoria on Feb. 22. Basque Socialist Party (PSE) politician Buesa, along with bodyguard Jorge Diez Elorza, was killed by a car bomb set off by armed Basque separatist group, ETA. Lopez said that the "Basque Country will be constructed on the memory of the victims and the truth of what has happened."

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    Three members of the Armed Basque separatists ETA raising their fist after announcing a permanent, verifiable ceasefire after more than 40 years of bloodshed in their fight for a homeland independent of Spain on Monday January 10, 2010.

    Spain's Basque armed-separatist group declares a cease-fire

    By Mish Whalen

    Basque armed-separatist group ETA Monday declared a "permanent and general, internationally verifiable" cease-fire, a move that could put an end to a 42-year campaign of violence, the organization said in a video posted on the website of Basque newspaper Gara. See more on this story from the Wall Street Journal here.