Etarra

Noun

Etarra (plural Etarras)

1. A member of the Basque terrorist nationalist organization ETA.
   • 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...1997 August 29, Paddy Woodworth, “An Etarra at the end of his tether”, in Irish Times, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2026
   • 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...