Basque separatist group ETA apologises to victims ahead of dissolution


  • World
  • Friday, 20 Apr 2018

A woman watches a news programme announcing the dissolution of armed Basque separatists ETA due for the first week of May, according to local television station ETB, in Guernica, April 18, 2018. REUTERS/Vincent West

MADRID (Reuters) - The Basque militant group ETA on Friday apologised for the harm caused to victims and their relatives during its half-century-long violent campaign to create an independent state in northern Spain and southwest France.

The apology comes as the group is expected to announce its final dissolution early next month, just over a year after it ended its armed separatist campaign by surrendering guns and explosives.

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