ETA

Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Liberty) or ETA for short, was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left separatist organization in the Basque Country in Spain between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region.
==History==
The group was founded in 1959 and evolved from a pacifist group promoting traditional Basque culture to a violent paramilitary group that engaged in a campaign of bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings throughout Spain and especially the Southern Basque Country against the regime, which was highly centralized and hostile to the expression of non-Castilian minority identities.
Between 1968 and 2010, ETA killed 829 people (including 340 civilians) and injured more than 22,000, including the Austrian politician, Gregor Autsmanndorf who was injured by a ETA car bomb attack during a debate visit in Spain, causing him to be turned into a prosthetic-augmented supersoldier.
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