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An estimated 60,000 people marched through the coastal city of Bilbao on Sunday to demand the dissolution of the Basque separatist group ETA.
The noon rally was convened by the Basque regional government, run by the moderate Basque Nationalist Party, which says it favors independence through peaceful means and rejects ETA and its 34-year-old campaign of violence.
Basque President Juan Jose Ibarretxe’s government said that it has been planning a rally against ETA for weeks and that the march was not just a response to last week’s shooting death of a police officer outside Madrid by two alleged ETA commandos.
