The Basque separatist group Eta claimed responsibility today for 10 bombings including one which killed a soldier and said it would press its campaign until Basque rights were recognised.
"The resistance will continue while the rights of the Basque Country are not recognised and respected," the group said in a statement sent to Basque newspaper Gara.
Eta, which had been accused of the attacks, listed the 10 bombings in the statement including the most recent on October 30th when a car bomb exploded at a university in the region of Navarre, wounding 17 people.
Another of the attacks listed was a bomb attack on Sept. 22 that destroyed part of a military barracks in the northern town of Santona and killed Luis Conde, a 46-year-old warrant officer in the Spanish army.
The government broke off peace talks with Eta after the group blew up a car park at Barajas airport in Madrid in December 2006, killing two. It has also launched a crack down and banned parties accused of links to the guerrillas.
Eta has killed more than 800 people in four decades of fighting for independence of the Basque Country from Spain.
The group said previous governments had tried and failed to curb its armed fight by jailing members and banning political parties.
The only solution was to "construct a democratic framework based on self-determination", the statement said.
Reuters