The Basque guerrilla group ETA vowed today to continue attacks on the Spanish state, saying last year's exploratory peace talks showed there was no point in negotiating with the government.
In its first communique since the end of a 14-month ceasefire in June, ETA said a peace process launched by Spanish Ppime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero offered no political solutions and sought only the surrender of the armed group.
"The mask is off," said the ETA statement published in Basque newspaper Gara, adding that Spain's Socialist government wanted to dismantle efforts to seek an independent Basque state.
ETA took responsibility for July explosions on the Tour de France cycle course, an August car bombing of a Basque police station, the explosion of a motor home in southern Spain in August, and an attack last week in the La Rioja region.
"It will continue hitting the structure of the Spanish state on all fronts until achieving democratic conditions that allow the defence of all political projects," the statement said.
The group has killed more than 800 people in four decades of armed struggle for independence for the Basque Country in northern Spain.