Same, but different

摘要

The faces are new, but the back-room boys are the same. Sortu ("Create"), a new Basque separatist party, has been created by Batasuna-a party banned in 2003 as a front for the armed group eta. Now a court must decide whether Sortu itself should be declared illegal. Will the new party also follow eta's orders? That is hard to say, and harder to prove. The new party's statutes clearly (and repetitively) state that it opposes violence. They even describe eta as a group that acts against the "fundamental rights and freedoms" of people.