Etarra

plural Etarras · alternative etarra

1. A member of the Basque terrorist nationalist organization ETA.

   The French government, which used to offer political asylum rather freely and turned a blind eye to the refugees in the French Basque country, kept refusing to extradite the etarras (ETA members)

   2009, Asta Maskaliūnaitė, “22. Dirty War, Or: How Democracies Can Lose In The Fight Against Terrorism”, in Th.A. van Baarda and D.E.M. Verweij, editor, The Moral Dimension of Asymmetrical Warfare, Leiden, The Netherlands: Nijhoff, →DOI, →ISBN, page 446

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   However, many "Etarras" left the group unimpeded in the late 1970s and 1980s, availing of amnesties and deals offered by the Spanish government under a policy quaintly known as "social reinsertion". […] As their net tightens, Carlos draws up an elaborate, tragically flawed scheme to spring the Etarras from the trap and release himself from his commitments.

   1997 August 29, Paddy Woodworth, “An Etarra at the end of his tether”, in Irish Times, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2026

   One year later, the Third Assembly revealed the increasinginfluence of Julen Madariaga’s Third Worldist faction. Madariaga was also the Etarra who devised the Action-Reaction Spiral (Formulation and Internal Initiator).

   2024, Mauro Lubrano, “Choosing what (not) to do next: a preliminary theoretical framework on strategic innovation in terrorist organizations”, in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, volume 17, number 1, →DOI, page 14