or ETA (Basque for "Basque Homeland and Freedom"; ), is an armed Basque nationalist separatist organization. Founded in 1959, it evolved from a group advocating traditional cultural ways to an armed group demanding Basque independence. http://www.goizargi.com/2003/queeselmlnv3.htm "What is the MNLV (3)" Since 1968 to date ETA has killed 821 people[LINK: http://www.mir.es/DGRIS/Terrorismo_de_ETA/ultimas_victimas/p12b-esp.htm] Spanish Ministerio del Interior page and committed dozens of kidnappings. ETA is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by both the Spanish and French [LINK: https://pastel.diplomatie.gouv.fr/editorial/actual/ael2/bulletin.asp?liste=20040601.html] French list of terrorist organisations, in the annex of Chapter XIV authorities as well as the European Union as a whole,,