Word: pagazaurtundua
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...There are others, however, who don't share that optimism and want to see more evidence of ETA's commitment to stop the violence. "We won't have a real peace process until ETA puts down the weapons for good," says Maite Pagazaurtundua, a Socialist councilwoman whose brother was killed by ETA in 2003. "Society cannot renounce justice and dignity" in the pursuit of peace, she says. That sentiment is also shared by a wide spectrum of ETA victims who fear the government may be tempted to show excessive leniency and give in to ETA's political demands in exchange...
...desperation more palpable than in Andoain, a town on the Leitzaran River south of San Sebastián. Here Egunkaria ran its main office, now sealed after Spanish police impounded documents and computers last month. Less than two weeks before, municipal police chief and vocal ETA opponent Joseba Pagazaurtundua, 48, was gunned down by ETA while reading a newspaper at a local bar. He had been threatened by the terrorists for years, says his sister, Maite, and in 1995 petitioned successfully to be transferred. But in 1999, according to his family, he was forced to go back to Andoain...
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