In a press communiqué, COVITE indicated that “Only mal-intentioned people or those with little knowledge of what has occurred in our land can allow the falsehood of calling the terrorist campaign which a part of Basque Society has experienced a ‘conflict’. The use of this term implies an intention to rewrite history, demonstrating a degree of perversion and indecency which is difficult to accept”.

The Victims of Terrorism in Spain have again reiterated that “in the Basque Country, there has been no conflict; there has not been two opposing factions. What there has been is a band of murderers who have carried out massacres and sowed the seed of terror within the Basque population and throughout Spain”. That is a clear and incontrovertible fact.