Terrorist groups - home based:
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA): aim(s): establish an independent Basque homeland based on Marxist principles in what is now northern Spain and southwestern France area(s) of operation: headquartered in northern Spain, where the Spanish and French Governments collaborate to arrest members and demand disarmament before engaging in negotiations; ETA has refrained from conducting attacks since its 20 October 2011 communique declaring a permanent cessation of violence, but had neither formally disbanded nor given up its weapons arsenal by early 2017; 279 members are currently in Spain's prisons, with an unknown number present in the country; on 14 January 2017, tens of thousands of supporters gathered in Bilbao in northern Spain at the annual ETA prisoner amnesty rally to demand at a minimum that members be released who have served their court-imposed sentences and for others to be transfered to jails close to their families; the group marked its 50th anniversary in 2009 with a series of high-profile and lethal car bombings, including the 29-30 July 2009 attacks on Civil Guard Barracks in Burgos and Calvia that killed two guards and injured more than 65 civilians; responsible for hundreds of deaths in Spain since its inception in 1959; outlawed in Spain