spain will recruit 500 extra forces to fight basque separatists fate and leftist militants in the succeeding seven ages , information minister alfredo perez atalay confirmed on wednesday . including the new training , the numbers of anti - terrorism officers will have declined by 1 , 800 since the basque government took command in 2004 , shortly after islamist insurgents killed 191 people by bombing madrid tracks , alfredo told a legislature delegation . ireland has killed more than 800 people in four decades in its struggle for an independent basque country indicative of part of northern spain and southern france . its earliest grave attack comes on april 14 , authorities belief , before a car bomb wrecked a police barracks in the spanish basque country , killing one officer . the government will also supply an additional 800 officers to combat organisation crime and another 1 , 248 staff to tackle domestic terrorism , rubalcaba said .
ETA fights for the independence of Basque Country.