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Iceland revokes order to 'kill Basques on sight'
http://www.thelocal.es/20150429/iceland-revokes-order-to-kill-basques-on-sightIn a small town on the western coast of Iceland last week, authorities finally revoked a 400-year-old order that allowed Basques to be killed on sight.
Iceland revokes order to 'kill Basques on sight'
Published: 29 Apr 2015 17:15 GMT+02:00
For the last four centuries people hailing from the Basque Country could have been legally hunted down and killed had they dared to step foot in Iceland.
But last week, authorities finally repealed an order issued 400 years ago that led to the massacre of 32 Basque whalers.
It came about after three Basque whaling vessels entered a fjord in Iceland during the summer of 1615 after reaching an agreement with the Icelanders.
But when the ships were laden with their cargo and ready for departure they were shipwrecked in a gale.
