(March 2000) (Photo: Kyodo Press)
Posted on 11/11/2023 7:09:47 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
1. History of Their Activities
The Japanese Red Army (JRA) is an international terrorist organization that was established by a faction of an extremist group who committed felonious crimes, such as attacks on police stations, bank raids, and the like in Japan with the objective of revolutionizing the country based on Marxist-Leninist ideology, and to ultimately unify the world under communism. It was formed abroad after the members fled from Japan in search of a base for their revolutionary activities while advocating the "Plan to Construct International Bases."
Through contact with the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" , which was committing frequent terrorist attacks at the time, Fusako Shigenobu and other leading members of the JRA established their activity base in the Middle East. In May 1972, three of its members randomly fired automatic rifles at the Tel Aviv Lod Airport in Israel (now Ben Gurion International Airport), killing 24 people and leaving 76 others with serious or minor injuries. Since this incident, which is known as the "Tel Aviv Lod Airport Massacre," JRA members have committed a series of atrocious crimes around the world, such as seizing foreign embassies and highjacking aircraft. Among these incidents in particular, the Government of Japan was forced to release the JRA members imprisoned or detained on the occasion of the "Kuala Lumpur Incident" in August 1975, an incident in which the US Embassy and other facilities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were occupied by their members, as well as the "Dacca Incident" in September 1977 in which a Japan Airlines aircraft leaving Paris for Tokyo was highjacked. 2. A String of the Members Arrested
The police made a string of arrests of the JRA members in Romania, Peru, Bolivia, and other countries by enhancing the coordination among the law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the relevant countries in pursuing the members across the world. Furthermore, five JRA members who were hiding in Lebanon, which has long been their activity base, were arrested in February 1997. Aside from Kozo Okamoto, who was granted political asylum in Lebanon, the remaining four members were sentenced to deportation in March 2000, and the police arrested and imprisoned the four on their return to Japan.
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| Arrest and imprisonment of four JRA members (March 2000) (Photo: Kyodo Press) |
Fusako Shigenobu proclaimed the disbanding of the JRA from behind bars in April 2001. The JRA confirmed this in the "May 30 Declaration (a statement that the JRA issues every year around May 30 in commemoration of the 'Tel Aviv Lod Airport Massacre')" issued in May of the same year.
However, it still gives high praise to the "Tel Aviv Lod Airport Massacre" in this declaration. Furthermore, the members established a new organization "Rentai" (later renamed to "Movement "Rentai"") in December of the same year, and it has started its operations and activities as a virtual successor organization to the JRA. 4. Police Measures
With the arrest of Fusako Shigenobu, the JRA is now placing the restructuring of its organization and the construction of new activity bases as its top priorities. Therefore, the prospect of its members to resume terrorist activities is low at this point relatively speaking. Never theless, its nature as a terrorist organization is unchanged, and therefore the danger remains. The police are engaging in efforts for the early discovery and arrest of the seven JRA fugitives, as well as striving to contain their activities.
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| The JRA members currently placed on the international wanted list by Japan |
Japanese Commies: Suicide attacks are a good thing, actually. (points to the kamikazes)
Yasser Arafat and the PLO: Well, suicide is forbidden by Islam...
Japanese Commies: Then let us demonstrate how a lack of care for one's life makes your terror more effective. (proceeds to shoot up an airport)
Would be an odd twist of history, if suicide attacks and suicide bombings becoming standard practice amongst Muslims can be traced to Japanese Reds deciding to teach Palestinian terrorists about the "kamikaze" pilots.
History ping.
Side note: The JRA may be how the IRA got ahold of Japanese made AR-180s in the early 1970s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmaLite_AR-18
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