Euskadi ta Askatasuna
n : a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student
activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate
nationalis of the traditional Basque party; want to
create on 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, ETA]