Recent History: any info about M.A. Uriagereka?

by Bruno (hambredejusticia [at] yahoo.com)

Tue, Jul 1, 2008 4:46AM

Miguel Ángel Uriagereka Ozanitz (or Guriaguereka, in some informations) was a 27 year old basque militant who apparently killed himself, using the seatbelt as a gallows' rope, in a federal vehicle when INS officers carried him to the San Francisco Airport, in june 1982, where he'd be taken to this Kingdom of Torture called 'Spain'. Does anybody know any good source of information of this case?

I write you from Spain, where this case nearly unknown, even in the basque revolutionary milieu, hoping someone knows a little bit more. I say 'revolutionary' because Uriagereka was not really accused of being an ETA activist, but being involved in an action commited by the Anticapitalist Autonomous Commandos (C.A.A., or K.A., for 'Komando Autonomoak', in basque language).
He had been arrested 10 months before, in San Anselmo (CA) after entering ilegally in the U.S. in the end of 1979 (the 'crime' has taken place in february 79) where his father lived, precisely, in Elko, Nevada.
Thanks a lot for any help.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/ESPAnA/ESTADOS_UNIDOS/ETA/Suicidio/presunto/etarra/Estados/Unidos/iba/ser/deportado/Espana/elpepiesp/19820618elpepinac_19/Tes/

I fixed up here the link to the new, apparead in the Spanish journal 'El País' the 18th june 1982.

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