Spanish Anti-terrorism and the Basque Society

In Basque society, there is an ideological confrontation through the use of violence as a political instrument. There are many people who criticize the Spanish anti-terrorism movement to violate ETA's human rights - many of the captured ETA member states have been imprisoned for decades and have been banished from the country, tortured, killed (basque collision) Life is emotionally overworked. In an environment centered on the threat of constant violence and terrorism (Vietz). In the following figure reproduced in the Basque dispute report, the struggle between the ETA and the Spanish police is explained by raw data showing how much ETA's behavior affects Spanish.

The Spaniards had been familiar with terrorism for a long time, but for most of the 20th century violence was done by an organization that fought for the independent home of the ETA, Basque, causing more than 800 people in explosion and assassination It was. Death But in the second half of the 1990s, there was concern about the ETA, this situation absorbed state anti-terrorism resources. This is because Spain has positioned it as a hub between North Africa and Europe and from there to the United States. - A country that became one of the main bases of Al Qaeda in Western Europe

By 1898 the Basque Country and Nationalism of Catalonia became an alternative source of national identity and threatened the hegemonic position of Spanish nationalism. The three main factors explain the emergence of Basque and Catalonia's nationalism in the early 20th century. Firstly, the fraudulent political system established by the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party's "Reconstruction" (1875-1923) has changed to alienate most areas of Spanish society. Recovery is an inappropriate system for expressing new political problems in Spain, which is becoming a large political era in modern countries. Third, after the "disaster" in 1898, Spain has not just lost colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Malaysia).