This man,or thing,because i don't think he can be call a person,has killed 25 inocent people without any remorse.Even more,he actually says that it's better to begin killing civil people and not politician.He is an ASSASSIN and has to be in prision.There is no other way.
I wish he die very soon,and when it happens then i will drink champagne like he did when inocent people was murdered.

PS:Sorry for my english.

Ana, Madrid, España

I am not going to defend De Juana Chaos for his terrible crimes, for which he has served his sentence of almost 20 years in prison, but nobody can't ignore that his last two years of imprisonment and the deny for his freedom are, in theory, for writing two opinion articles in a newspaper. How many of you read the articles? Well, I did and he doesn't threat anybody but denounces, what he thinks, an abusive management by several prison directors that he has met during his many years as an inmate. And for these two articles he is getting 12 years. This is simply called revenge. And finally, if everybody agrees that this peculiar idea of independence for Basque Country is only pursued by a few fanatics extremists why the Spanish Government does not let Basque citizens to democratically decide their own future with, for instance, a referendum? Thanks the Times for giving the opportunity for everybody's opinion to be published.

karlos , macclesfield,

Dear Sir/madam
I am not going to mention the different mistakes in the original interview, like mentioning that Juana prepared himself totally shaving all his hair and tying himself up for the pictures when he is only tied up when the doctors have to give him proteins. I am not even going to mention the fact that the Basque Country has a political autonomy inside the Spain that Scotland or Ulster only dream about.
So I'm only going to remember one fact. He killed 25 people. And recently he mentioned in a newspaper how he wanted to kill again.
Also, allow me to remind you those "teenage supporters of separatism" actually support terrorism. Nobody condems them for supporting separatism, but for making life impossible in the streets and actually celebrating every person killed by ETA.
It's true that wounds are too raw. It's just that we'd like if they stopped chanting victory every time an innocent person died.

Jaime Velasco, Vigo, Spain

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have read the article and also seen the picture.

The man on the bed is the killer of 25 people. De Juana pleads for peace. In Spain there has not been a war since 1939, what I am pleading for is freedom. Spain lives in peace, what we are lacking is freedom, above all in Euskadi( Basque Country) where people are not free to expres themself. Basque people live afraid that some terrorist will kill them or their families if they want to be Spaniards.

beatriz , Valencia, Spain

I am so angry to see ETA called a separatist group instead of a Terrorist group. I cannot believe it, did you forget IRA so quick???

Just few bomb letters explode in Britain. Do you think any Islamic separatist group have done it?

victor, Cordoba, Spain

The situation in Spain is indeed complicated. I can not expect someone who has not grown up in the country to fully understand it, but I would expect some respect.
You have not had one of your classmates killed by a bomb at age 11. You were not told since you were little not to kick bags or bins because there could be a bomb. You have not suffered bomb threats in your school. You have not had a night out with your friends ruined with great violence because the "street fighters" decided to demonstrate the exact same days that exams finished. You didn't have to stop a bunch of kids from turning your car and burning it so you and your niece could get out of the riot area. You have not recieved a letter telling you they would kill your family if you don't give them money. You don't think that you are fortunate because nobody in your family has been killed by a terrorist group.
My anger is justified and my need is for peace, but I will not talk to people who have no remorse.

Carmen Huesa, Aberdeen, UK

I am very sad that a newpaper like The Times (the BBC also do the same) called ETA a separatist group instead of a Terrorist group. This is an insult to the victims and to all the peole that by peaceful means do not want to belong to a particular country. All my life I had been very anglophile and I travelled a lot to London. I always thought that Gibraltar future should be decided by Gibraltarians. Your article was clearly a gift to supporters od Eta and a blow for peaceful people. From now on, I will always remeber that according to the United Nations Gibraltar is a colony and so it should be returned. And about Iraq I will always think that UK went there illegally and then learning from your way of defining Eta I will have my doubts if the terrorists in Iraq should be killed terrorist or just the resistantS to an illegal foreign occupation.
I am so much disappointed. Where I thought we had friends we just do not have.

Josep, Barcelona, Catalonia

Dear Mr Mrs

Judging by your article, it appears the Times has somewhat blundered into this situation. I am surprised to find that an internationally acclaimed broadsheet like the Times should have such little foresight. Perhaps next time, more thorough research into the political background and implications of the matter and less clandestine interviews may be advised before “shedding light” on a dilemma which you so succinctly described as being “too raw” to be touched

best regards
Tim Duthie, London

tim, London, UK

In a mature democracy like the US this killer would have been executed. Anyone who thinks the Basques are oppressed needs psychiatric help. Britain has no lessons to offer us. Stop being a loudspeaker for demented killers.

Jose, Oviedo, Spain

Spanish people don´t understand why this region that has the same culture, religion, traditions, which was before spain than Madrid has many people that wants the autodetermination. We also don´t understand (always with the respect they don´t have with us) why we have to pay it with our lives, our bussiness, our freedon. This is a war with only one team that kills and make life imposible to others, an in the other hand one team that respects the other, has never ever killed anyone and respects democracy. Maybe if there were less young people burning buses, burning bussiness the years in prison were also less.
Above all is comunication problem. If you want to be outside spain that´s ok. But what are you going to do with the other 50% o Basque people who wants to be spanish?

Irene, Madrid, Spain

I wonder if you realize how much using the term "separatists" instead of "terrorists" to describe members of ETA rankles with the Spanish people?

Nedra Rivera, Madrid, Spain

First. Most of us in Spain appreciate the fact that The Times seems to have printed the word "terrorist" for the first time in many years in reference to ETA. It would sound odd to describe Mohammed Atta as an "idealistic young Muslim trainee pilot". ETA is on the list of the EU's terrorist organisations, along with Al Qaeda. What more is required for The Times to include that dreaded word in its headlines?
Second. If you want your sentence of 3000 years to be reduced to 18 (almost 9 months per broken family), judicial systems tend to appreciate a little remorse in the serial murderer.
Third and last. Hunger strikes tend to work better when the you actually LIKE the guy -- Gandhi, for example -- and not so much when you are the defiant, unrepented murderer of 25 people. De Juana's hunger strike is an issue between him and his stomach. Where are all those liberal "right to die" activists?

Pablo, Madrid, Spain

Dear mr/mrs.:

I dare to talk about your article, even being my english too bad.

- It´s not true that the courts are more conservative than progressive. (Zapatero has been working in this affair last 2 years)

- The gangs that you define like tennagers are delinquents and the human resources providers of ETA. Police had to do their own work.

- ¿Do you think is good enough 4 years in jail for a person who has killed 25 people?

It´s a great truth that spanish people have to learn from the british people how to deal with terrorist and how to win them also talking, but, overall, we want peace based on the justice.

Sorry, but I Think you are wrong again.

Best regards.

LUCAS DE HARO, Madrid, Spain

This is the spanish justice:

One that will attempt against the sexual freedom,
with violence will be punished in charge of sexual
aggression with the prison of one to four years.

A young basque was condemned 16 years of prison by burns it of a bank automatic teller.

Kike, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country