Another ETA Cache Found

The Vasque police found another ETA cache, this time holding 100 kilos (220 pounds) of explosives, all ready to be used - the only things missing were the detonators. This is the third one found within the past week.

This yet another piece of evidence that ETA had no intention on maintaining its truce of last March. It is also speculated that perhaps the unilateral declaration of truce may have been a ploy to buy the ETA more time. However, the government continued to arrest members while engaging in dialogue which upset many of its proponents. This fall the negotiations hit a critical point with frustrations on both sides. Jailed ETA members went on hunger strikes and restrictions were imposed on protestors and ETA supporters.

However, the acquisitions of arms, could not have happened solely in the past four months but must have taken some planning. The unilateral truce of March of 2006 was the ninth one that had taken place over the forty years of ETAs existance.