Hello and thank you for downloading Witness with me Simon Watts.

As part of the BBC's 100 Women's series, we bring you the stories of some of the women

who've been overlooked by contemporary history.

I've been speaking to a friend of Maria de laurs

Gonzales-Catrain, an iconic woman leader of the Basque separatist group Etta who

was murdered by her own comrades. It's 1979 the height of Etta's bloody campaign for an independent bass country.

Etta's bloody campaign for an independent Bas country.

Eta commandos are killing dozens of people in Spain every year, from army generals to bar owners.

Violence is the only way.

Nothing else gives us even the possibility of winning independence.

All the rest is promises, promises that independence can be won by peaceful means.

It's all a lie.

When Eta spoke to the BBC, they put forward two of their top commanders.

One of them was a woman known to all as Yo-Yves.

Either we fight or we die anyway.

If we die fighting, well that's the way it goes.

But if we don't fight, the Basks will certainly perish as a people, even in this so-called democracy.

The Basque journalist Alishabette Gar mendia was a friend of your years from their school days. When I think of yoles, the first thing that me has been

surrement of the responsibility.

When I think of Yoles, the first thing that comes to mind is her great sense of

responsibility. She was the second of nine children and had to look

after the younger ones. Physically I would say she was always attractive even as a

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