Spain Fires General For War On Basques

Sat., May 25, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

The government fired a Civil Guard general from his job as Interior Ministry adviser Friday, a day after he was jailed on charges of helping wage a secret war against Basque separatists.

Gen. Enrique Rodriguez Galindo was charged by a national court Thursday with masterminding the kidnapping, torture and murder of two Basque separatists in 1983.

The case against Galindo stems from a judicial investigation of assassinations of members of the Basque separatist group ETA.

The general was in charge of a Civil Guard garrison in the Basque city of San Sebastian, where some of the death squad attacks on ETA members were allegedly planned.

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