The release of fresh ETA documents continue to shed light on
the shape of past negotiations between the terrorist group and the
Spanish state.
“The government nailed us,”
ETA decided, in minutes of a
meeting held in 2008. The aborted talks that took place between
March 2006 and June 2007
broke down because the government was not prepared to make
new concessions, ETA concluded
in the document seen by EL PAÍS.
The Socialist (PSOE) government of Prime Minister Zapatero
wanted ETA to lay down arms in
return for improved conditions
for their prisoners — the same demands made by Felipe González’s
government and that of José
María Aznar during previous attempts at dialogue. The report
says the Basque separatists felt
they had made a political misjudgment. “The peace process
broke down because we thought
we were dealing with a government that had to negotiate with
us and that the PSOE needed us
in order to stay in power.”
The militants criticized their
own attitude as arrogant. They
wrote that at times they forgot
their own weak negotiating position.
“We underestimated the government
and they nailed us.
READ MORE: http://www.elpais.com/misc/herald/herald.pdf
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