France: Basque Party to Disband

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The Basque nationalist political party, Batasuna, already illegal in Spain, announced Thursday that it would dissolve itself in France as well. The party was banned in Spain for its connections to the armed Basque separatist group ETA, for which it acted as its political wing. Two members of the party, Maite Goyenetxe and Jean Claude Aguerre, speaking in Bayonne, the center of the Basque region in France, announced the dissolution of Batasuna, but said they would continue to press for an independent Basque nation. In 2011, ETA announced that it had abandoned violence after a four-decade campaign for an independent homeland that claimed more than 800 lives.