Basque Homeland and Freedom
n 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 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of
government officials" [syn: {Basque Homeland and Freedom},
{Basque Fatherland and Liberty}, {Euskadi ta Askatasuna},
{ETA}]