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Sunday, December 5, 2010

the RAF

According to Wikipedia, the RAF (Rote Armee Faktion)  described itself as a communist and anti-imperialist "urban guerrilla" group engaged in armed resistance against what they deemed to be a fascist state.  There were three generations of RAF members.  the first generation of members were the original founders.  Then when those members got in trouble or thrown into jail, the second generation started up and would try to get them out of jail.  The next generation, the third, would do the same as the previous generation, but this third generation also ended the group on April 20th, 1998.  They ended the violence by typing an 8 page letter and faxed it to the Reuters News Agency, according to Wikipedia.  The letter was signed "RAF" with the logo of the group.  The letter confirmed the the group had broken apart and dissolved.   I feel like the RAF did a lot of violence for political reasons.  I feel like the terrorists that we hear about today are doing it against people that they don't like, not so much on a political level.  I could be very wrong about this but I just feel that groups of people are doing it to each other just out of hate.





Red Army Faction- Wikipedia
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