Huge Madrid Rally Against ETA Talks
Charles Johnson
Sat Jun 4, 2005 at 9:17 pm PDT • Views: 246
Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid today, to protest the Zapatero government’s plan to “negotiate” with Basque terror group ETA: Huge Madrid rally against ETA talks. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
MADRID, Spain (AP) — Hundred of thousands of people, including relatives of those killed or wounded by bomb attacks by Basque separatists, packed the streets of Madrid Saturday to protest a government offer to hold talks with the armed group ETA if it renounces violence.
The demonstrators shouted slogans against Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his Socialist government and demanded the resignation of the government’s ombudsman for victims of terrorism, Gregorio Peces Barba.
Zapatero says the time is right to seek talks with ETA, arguing that the group has been seriously weakened by a wave of arrests over the past two years and has not killed anyone since May 2003.
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