ETA declares an end to all armed activity

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15396162

In a video statement to the BBC, Basque separatist group ETA has declared an absolute end to its armed campaign and policy of violence. After being founded as a political group-turned-separatist paramilitary, the ETA fought a long armed campaign against the governments of Spain and France in the name of Basque independence. They are responsible for the deaths of 832 people over their 52 year history, including major politicians and many of the Basque people they swear to defend the interests of.
And thus, the book closes on the history of one of the world's most ignored armed conflicts. In a period dominated by the exploits of the Provisional IRA, US-USSR relations, and then trouble in the Balkans and the Arab world, very few (if any) people in America and much of the world have even heard of the ETA or the trouble they have caused. Such illustrates the localization of the Basque conflict; it is viewed as a footnote even in the politics of most of Europe, as something that is only the problem of pieces of Spain and France.