The New York Times
Thursday, October 20, 2011 -- 1:07 PM EDT
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Basque Militant Group ETA Says It Is Laying Down Arms
After nearly half a century of violence, the Basque separatist group ETA declared a unilateral end to its campaign of bombings and shootings on Friday, saying it wished to seize "an historical opportunity to reach a just and democratic resolution" of the conflict in the ethnically Basque areas of northeastern Spain and southwestern France.
The group's announcement of "the definite cessation of its military activity" came in the form of a written statement and an accompanying video that was made available to The New York Times and the BBC in London under an embargo stipulating that the statement not to be made public until 6 p.m. British time, 1 p.m. EST in the United States. ETA's officials said they planned to release the statement simultaneously to two sympathetic Basque-language newspapers , Garra and Berria, published in San Sebastian, the political center of the main Basque homeland in Spain.
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