To date, ETA has since it carried out first killing in 1968 murdered over 800 people, the majority being the members of law enforcement including the Guardia Civil and Police. They however have killed many civilians and the vast majority of people wounded in attacks by ETA are also overwhelmingly civilians. For a more detailed breakdown of people killed by ETA please view the following link: http://www.mir.es/DGRIS/Terrorismo_de_ETA/ultimas_victimas/p12b-esp.htm. They have also targeted important politicians in order to destabilise and intimidate Spanish politics, with important figures such as Luis Carrero Blanco (Franco's successor), military governors, army generals and colonels and navy captains having all been killed by ETA.
The methods used by ETA in carrying out these assasinations are varied and include the use of hand held weapons such as pistols and automatic machine guns but also bombs and mortars. Although ETA claims to not target civilians, approximately 343 have been killed to date. When the bombs are car-bombs seeking to produce large damage and terror rather than deaths, they are generally announced by telephone calls made to newspapers speaking in the name of ETA to give an advanced warning. Kidnapping has also been used by ETA to exort money or as a tool to gain their demands. Those kidnapped are usually businessmen who have not paid the 'revolutionary tax'. Most are returned unharmed, but some have been either wounded or killed.
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