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Three Basque brigadists from Komite Internazionalistak stayed in Baghdad, even though the US announced a war against Iraq

21
years ago

19 March 2003,

Three Basque brigadists from Komite Internazionalistak stayed in Baghdad with the civilian population, even though the US began the war against Iraq. The news agencies controlled by the military gave their chronicles a very different view from the information they were broadcasting.

Source:

Sabino Ormazabal, Grupo Bidea Xede. 500 non-violent actions. (MR Arangiz Foundation)

On this day
1859Josefa Ignacia Albisu Aranburu Joxpinaxi was born in Lazkao
1896For the first time they placed an ikurrina outside a PNV headquarters in Bermeo
1933Photographer Gerda Taro is arrested in Germany as a member of a plot against Hitler
19785,000 workers of the company Babcock & Wilcox of Sestao occupied the plant

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2003-01-12
A failure at the Garoña nuclear power plant forced the reactor to stop while working at all power stations.
2003-01-18
24 Navarros mayors announced that they would not comply with the Symbols Act and the Basque Foral Decree.
2003-02-06
Nigerian Stella Obasanjo made official statement against female genital mutilation
2003-02-15
25 million took to the streets in over 100 countries against the invasion of Iraq
2003-02-20
The Spanish Civil Guard forcibly closed the 'Diario Vasco'
2003-02-21
The workers of 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria' published the journal 'Everyday', demonstrating that they would not silence them.
2003-02-22
One of Donostia's biggest protests to denounce the closure of the 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria'
2003-03-19
Three Basque brigadists from Komite Internazionalistak stayed in Baghdad, even though the US announced a war against Iraq
2003-03-20
U.S. and its allies begin the invasion of Iraq
2003-04-05
Seven activists enter the Bardenas shooting camp protesting the Iraq War
2003-04-29
Judge Baltasar Garzón arrested eight members of Udalbiltza and ordered the closure of his headquarters
2003-05-03
Illegalization of 241 popular platforms in Hego Euskal Herria
2003-06-21
The first issue of the journal Berria was published
2003-06-22
José Bové was arrested and taken by helicopter to jail
2003-06-30
UNESCO declared that half of the world &apos; s languages will disappear at the end of the twenty-first century
2003-07-23
Miguel Sanz, president of Navarra, pointed out that the classes teaching the history of the Basque Country had to be punished.
2003-08-02
Extreme heat wave hits Euskal Herria
2003-08-11
Dozens of young people first approached San Sebastian
2003-09-10
Peasant Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide at the World Trade Organization meeting
2003-09-30
The excavators demolished the town of Artozki, amid the resistance of the solidary
2003-10-09
Greenpeace action at the Garoña nuclear power plant requesting its closure
2003-11-08
Demos organised a mus championship on the Baiona tracks
2003-11-29
Death of Sara Fernandez, from Malaga, when he visited a Basque prisoner

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5
years ago
2019-03-15
The Fridays for future climate movement celebrated its first international strike
20
years ago
2004-03-13
Baker Angel Berrueta was killed in Pamplona by a Spanish police and his son
20
years ago
2004-03-11
Al Qaeda in Madrid
25
years ago
1999-03-24
NATO launches bombing of Yugoslavia
25
years ago
1999-03-20
The body of Joxelu Geresta Mugika Ttotto, member of ETA, was found under an apple from a Errenteria farmhouse
35
years ago
1989-03-26
A group of climbers implemented the platform against the construction of the Leitzaran highway on the Bi Haizpe rocks of Irurtzun
35
years ago
1989-03-24
Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska
35
years ago
1989-03-16
A woman from Portugalete marked on her right leg the acronym GAL
40
years ago
1984-03-23
The GAL shot dead Mondragonese refugee Xabier Pérez de Arenaza Sogorb in Biarritz
40
years ago
1984-03-22
Segmented against five members of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commands at Pasai Donibane
40
years ago
1984-03-06
Start a historic strike by miners in the UK against Tatcher
40
years ago
1984-03-01
Didier Lafitte, a member of the American team, was killed by French police in Baiona
45
years ago
1979-03-28
Three Miles Island nuclear accident occurred in the United States
45
years ago
1979-03-03
23 Basque prisoners in Soria prison cut their veins
50
years ago
1974-03-23
Rolls Royce's Scottish workers refused to repair aircraft engine in the Pinochet regime
50
years ago
1974-03-02
Salvador Puig Antich was executed by the Franco regime
60
years ago
1964-03-30
Gernika celebrated the Aberri Eguna, the first held in the South since 1936
65
years ago
1959-03-10
300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama palace to prevent the Chinese army from stopping it
70
years ago
1954-03-09
Bobby Sands is born in a Catholic family in Belfast
70
years ago
1954-03-01
U.S. nuclear test caught 23 Japanese sailors on Bikini Atoll
75
years ago
1949-03-30
Following the protest against Iceland's entry into NATO in Reykjavik
75
years ago
1949-03-07
José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana Argala was born in Arrigorriaga
80
years ago
1944-03-27
US aircraft bombed Anglet and Biarritz
80
years ago
1944-03-25
76 prisoners escaped from Nazi camp Stalag Luft III
80
years ago
1944-03-23
Italian anti-fascist partisans attack Nazis in Rome
85
years ago
1939-03-28
Francoists turned the fronton Euskal Jai of Pamplona into prison
85
years ago
1939-03-16
Prohibition of writing in Basque in Hego Euskal Herria
105
years ago
1919-03-04
Kinmel Park Matxinada begins in the Welsh town of Abergele
120
years ago
1904-03-06
José Antonio Agirre, first president of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, was born
125
years ago
1899-03-06
The pharmaceutical company Bayern recorded aspirin
145
years ago
1879-03-14
Albert Einstein is born, one of the most important scientists in history.
155
years ago
1869-03-24
In New Zealand the lifting of majorities against the British ends
165
years ago
1859-03-19
Josefa Ignacia Albisu Aranburu Joxpinaxi was born in Lazkao
180
years ago
1844-03-10
Born the Madrid musician Pablo Sarasate
190
years ago
1834-03-29
The Zumalacárregui army defeated the liberal troops between Abárzuza and Muro in Navarre
230
years ago
1794-03-13
Two young seafarers were murdered with guillotine for helping those wishing to leave the French Army
230
years ago
1794-03-03
Paris ordered the deportation of robbers
570
years ago
1454-03-09
An Italian explorer was born that would call the American continent: America Vespucio