Many March For Peace In Basque Region

Sun., Jan. 29, 1995

Compiled From Wire Services

About 100,000 people marched Saturday in an annual demonstration to demand peace in the troubled Basque region, and they paid tribute to a prominent politician assassinated by suspected separatists.

The killing of Gregorio Ordonez on Monday was believed to be the latest by the extremist ETA group in its 27-year-old, violent independence campaign for northern Spain’s three Basque provinces. A week earlier, separatist gunmen had killed a national police officer.

“ETA continues trying to impose itself on the Basque people, accumulating deaths instead of arguments,” one speaker told a rally at the end of the two-hour demonstration Saturday.

The organization, known by the Basque-language acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom, has claimed responsibility for 745 killings since taking up arms in 1968.

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