Word: askatasuna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Priestly Aid. Credit for the terrorist campaign has been claimed by Euzkadi ta Askatasuna (Basque Land and Liberty), an outlawed movement that started in 1953 as a youth group. It has since split with the Basque Nationalist Party, which has worked peacefully for independence since the late 19th century. E.T.A. now campaigns on behalf of what it calls "colonized and oppressed" Basques with nightrider tactics and a Marxist vocabulary. "We have gathered our forces to form a national liberation front," says one of its leaders. "We will not stop until we have achieved the creation of a truly democratic socialist...