FROM THE WORLD TO THE BASQUE COUNTRY
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2007/VI/27
EH News periodical information on the Basque Country
18th June 2007-23rd June 2007
· European elected representatives ratify their support to a democratic resolution.· Batasuna has gathered 40 international organisations' support.· The Spanish civil guard finds a car with explosives.· Repression: The Canadian police arrests a Basque citizen in Quebec.· Thousands of people reiterate in Bilbao their compromise towards a democratic resolution.· Require compromise to guarantee EPPK's (Basque political prisoners' collective) rights.
· A demo demands in Donostia freedom for Rego and De Juana.
European elected representatives ratify their support to a democratic resolution 19/06/07The Gernika Network for the Self-determination, conformed by elect representatives of all Europe in defence of the free-determination right for the Basque Country, made a public declaration remembering the political character of the conflict that confronts the Basque Country with the Spanish and French states and, renew their commitment to work towards a democratic resolution. They, also, denounce the imprisonment of Arnaldo Otegi as an element that "hinders dialogue". "The Spanish State should, once and for all, end all repressive measures and to act with responsibility in a dialogue that will resolve the existing conflict".
They, also, believe that the end of ETA's cease-fire "demonstrates that, unfortunately, from 22nd March 2006 there has been no dialogue process to resolve the roots of the conflict: territoriality and the right of self-determination".
"The creation of a peace process is not possible when these fundamental rights, that are the roots of the conflict, are denied".
As a conclusion, they summoned "our colleagues, parliamentarians and elect representatives of all Europe, to add to our network in order to promote a democratic process of peace that resolves the existing conflict in the Basque Country". And, as emphasize in their manifesto, "we are convinced that by building peace in the Basque Country we also contributed in the creation of peace in Europe".
Batasuna has gathered 40 international organisations' support 20/06/07Joseba Alvarez member of the Basque pro-independence left's executive, has gathered the support of more than forty political organizations who, among other issues, have denounced the imprisonment of Arnaldo Otegi.
The reason for those trips, a part from forwarding first hand the present political situation of the Basque Country and to learn in greater depth the experiences of those countries, has also been "to ask, the international community, for the necessary supports", "for the renewal of a dialogue, agreement and resolution of the conflict process" for the Basque Country.
The Basque pro-independence left situates the trips carried out by Alvarez to countries like South Africa or Ireland "places with an expanded experience in the resolution of the conflict", in that effort to take initiatives. As well as to other Countries such as Chile, Bolivia, Argentina or different countries of Europe.
The member of the national executive also talked about other initiatives as the internationalist solidarity day to "try to articulate in the future an Basque solidarity answer towards other towns instruggle". In this sense, mentioned, "now that the Basque pro-independence left returns to the institutions there will be more opportunities to do so".
The Spanish civil guard finds a car with explosives 22/06/07The Civil Guard found a vehicle, in the border between Portugal and the Spanish State, in whose interior was stored explosive material. The military institute attributes its property to ETA and assures to have found detonators, timers, a manual in Basque language for making bombs, and about 115 kilos of material to make explosives, like aluminium dust and ammonic nitrate, as well as documentation.
Police sources assured that the products found in the boot of the vehicle were in separated bags and without any type of activated initiation device, reason why discarded that the car "was destined to commit an attack". These sources shuffled the possibility that it was "a supplying mission".
Repression: The Canadian police arrests a Basque citizen in Quebec 21/06/07The neighbour of Beasain Iban Apaolaza has been arrested in Quebec by the Mounted Police of Canada, according to the information given by the Spanish Home Ministry that remembered that there was a search and arrest order for a "crime of terrorism". The announcement on his arrest was facilitated, at least, with three days of delay.
They are already three the Basque citizens arrested outside the borders of the States Spanish and French since ETA ended the permanent cease-fire.
The first prisoner was Bittor Tejedor, was arrested 1st June in Vancouver, also in a Canadian police operation.
The second was Andoni Aspiazu, arrested the past 12th June in Mexico and handed over to the Spanish authorities the following day.
Thousands of people reiterate in Bilbao their compromise towards a democratic resolution 23/06/07Thousands of people responded yesterday in the streets of Bilbo to the national demonstration call EAE-ANV (Basque Nationalist Action) in favour of a democratic process that will bring the Basque Country to a scene of peace and democracy for all its citizenship, without the exclusion of an important sector of the population.
Apart from the president of the convoking party, Kepa Bereziartua, could also be seen the members of the Basque pro-independence left's executive Joseba Permach, Joseba Alvarez or Juan Joxe Petrikorena, the General Secretary of LAB (Basque pro-independence left trade union), Rafa Diez, or the of Ezker Abertzalea parliamentarian Nekane Erauskin, not forgetting historical members of the pro-independence left such as Txomin Ziluaga.
Also took part a numerous representation of the Friends of the Basque Country in favour of a democratic process, making clear in the streets of the Bizkaia's capital that the resolution to the Basque political conflict is day by day more reflected in the international agenda and successfully obtains the support of more political and social agents.
The Catalan Jordi Villanueva and the Irish David Kennedy showed, for example, the solidarity arrived from Catalunya, Portugal, Holland, Ireland, Corsica, Palestine, Britain and the Spanish and French states.
Villanueva emphasized the importance of dialogue, as "it is more necessary that ever", not forgetting that is essential to recognised the Basque Country's right to decide their future.
Kennedy underlined that the necessity to find a solution to the Basque political conflict is more and more present in the worldwide context, remembering that the Irish peoples solidarity with this process will always be there.
Require compromise to guarantee EPPK's (Basque political prisoners' collective) rights 23/06/07Thousand people demanded respect to the prisoners' rights in Iruņea. 38 social, trade union and cultural organizations supported a march that culminated the activities carried out this past month under the motto "Ilunpetik, konpromezuz eskubide guztien jabe izatera" (From darkness, from compromise to own all the rights).
They explained the "dark" situation of the prisons and that nowadays are six hundreds the citizens of Basque Country who "undergo the norms derived from a situation of exception under the denominated "fight against terrorism"". As a proof of it, they indicated that they are 22 the Basque political prisoners who have passed away in the jails; that 12 remain imprisoned suffering serious or incurables diseases; and that another 140 continue imprisoned in spite of having fulfilled their sentence.
They added "the dispersion worsens the conditions of imprisonment and extends the punishment to the relatives and close friends". In fact, they underlined the effort that supposes the visits, not only because of the time and the money spent on the trips but also for the danger that around a thousand people have to face every week for having to travel thousands kilometres to be able to visit their loved ones and, remembered that 16 Basque people have died already in car accidents.
A demo demands in Donostia freedom for Rego and De Juana 23/06/07Around two hundred people gathered in Donostia, with object to demand the liberation of Donostia's political prisoners Iņaki de Juana Chaos and Juan Jose Rego Vidal.
In opinion of the pro-amnesty movement, which summoned the march, the situation that suffers these two, seriously ill, prisoners "it is the clear reflection of the Spanish State's blackmail towards the Basque political prisoners".
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