ETA Ends Ceasefire in Spain
The armed Basque separatist group ETA said on Tuesday, June 05, 2007, it was ending its 15-month-old cease-fir, accusing the Spanish government of persecuting the group instead of negotiating with it. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero immediately condemned the move. Eta had declared a "permanent" ceasefire in March 2006, and had insisted it still held despite a bomb that killed two people at Madrid airport in December. After the Madrid airport attack Spain's Socialist government broke off peace talks.