On May 3, 2018, ETA issued its statement of dissolution. On September 5, 2010, he had announced his resignation to “carry out offensive armed actions” ahead of the final halt to the attacks on October 20, 2011. From then on, it would take him nearly seven years to disappear, setting milestones for his own use, including simulation of disarming. The purpose of that liturgy was to avoid at all costs the feeling of an irreversible defeat against the rule of law and society. The relief brought by the news also brought with it an early social unwillingness in the Basque Country to recall the years of terror and to build a shared memory that would allow the young to understand the existence of an evil which must still be punished judicially and morally. purified. Padoxally enough, the disappearance of ETA as a triumph of democracy also contributed to the fact that no one took responsibility for what happened. ETA’s refusal to formulate the slightest self-criticism and take on the unfair harm caused by people with names and surnames clouds the memory. Five years after ETA ceased to exist, it can only be hoped that today its then members and their heirs will at least cease to claim terror as something historically unavoidable.
Source: La Verdad
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