ETA was an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization active in Spain and France from 1959 to 2018. Founded during Francoist Spain by Basque nationalist students, it evolved into a clandestine paramilitary group conducting assassinations, bombings, and kidnappings. The group killed over 800 people and was classified as a terrorist organization by multiple countries. It announced a definitive end to armed activity in 2011 and formally dissolved in 2018.
CRIMENET has extracted 37 linkages for this organization, including 25 cooperative ties across 13 organizations, 7 conflicts across 3 organizations, 5 other connections and footprints in 5 countries.
ETA received funding and weapons from associates of Radovan Karadzic within the Republika Srpska , in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars .
ETA members received training from FARC... FARC and ETA had held meetings in Colombia, exchanging information about combat tactics...
ETA to purchase weapons in the then Czechoslovak Republic.
ETA , an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ... was an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization active in Spain and France between 1959 and 2018.
ETA performed their first car bomb assassination in Madrid in September 1985, resulting in one death (American citizen Eugene Kent Brown...)