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1. A terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
   "in 1968 Basque Homeland and Freedom launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials"
   - Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, ETA

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization