page_title: Killing of Lasa and Zabala
hierarchical_section_title: Killing of Lasa and Zabala
caption_attribution_description: English: Demonstration for remembering Jose Antonio Lasa and Jose Ignacio Zabala, killed and tortured by GAL, and police charge against it.
context_page_description: The murder of Lasa and Zabala was one of the first acts carried out by the GAL, a state sponsored death squad, Basques José Antonio Lasa and José Ignacio Zabala were kidnapped, tortured and executed in 1983.
  This action was organized by a paramilitary group called GAL which subsequent trials found to have been established by figures within the PSOE government. Alleged ETA militants Joxean Lasa and Joxi Zabala, while getting into a friend's car, were kidnapped by non-uniformed members of the Spanish police in Bayonne. They were secretly taken to San Sebastián, and locked up in a house property of the government always in Spanish Police's hands. For a long time, these two men from the municipality of Tolosa, were tortured. The organizers of the operation, provided they complied with the objectives of extracting information, ordered the murder of Lasa and Zabala. In order to accomplish this, the hostages were transferred to Alicante. There, they were forced to dig their own graves, and then, they were shot dead. Finally, the executors covered the dead bodies with quicklime to accelerate their decomposition, and eliminate or minimize any evidence of the crime.
context_section_description: The murder of Lasa and Zabala was one of the first acts carried out by the GAL, a state sponsored death squad, Basques José Antonio Lasa and José Ignacio Zabala were kidnapped, tortured and executed in 1983.
  This action was organized by a paramilitary group called GAL which subsequent trials found to have been established by figures within the PSOE government. Alleged ETA militants Joxean Lasa and Joxi Zabala, while getting into a friend's car, were kidnapped by non-uniformed members of the Spanish police in Bayonne (Labourd-French Basque Country). They were secretly taken to San Sebastián, and locked up in a house property of the government always in Spanish Police's (Guardia Civil) hands. For a long time, these two men from the municipality of Tolosa, were tortured. The organizers of the operation, provided they complied with the objectives of extracting information, ordered the murder of Lasa and Zabala. In order to accomplish this, the hostages were transferred to Alicante. There, they were forced to dig their own graves, and then, they were shot dead. Finally, the executors covered the dead bodies with quicklime to accelerate their decomposition, and eliminate or minimize any evidence of the crime.
caption: Demonstration in remembrance of Jose Antonio Lasa and Jose Ignacio Zabala in 2008
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