Red army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion - RAF)
This is a German far-left terrorist group founded in 1970 in tehdéjším West Germany. Its main founders were Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ennslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Möllerová and many others. The group was created on the background of the Vietnam war, but also a number of other events. 1. generation of the RAF is also sometimes referred to as the "Group Baader-Meinhof". In total, there were 3 group or generation of the RAF. Their targets were mostly the leaders of the political, or generally 'industrial' power and the repressive apparatus, and then the american troops, but it has also avoided the banking institutions. The whole history of the RAF is riddled with mostly questionable deaths of their members, when they should act on suicides in prisons, however, at least some of them are still questionable. The organization cooperated with the palestinian Fatah.
20. April 1998 was the agency Reuters sent a fax in which it was stated that the RAF is disbanded.
The hallmark of the Red army Faction is a five-pointed red star of the machine gun Heckler and Koch HK54 and of the letters forming the abbreviation of the German name - RAF.
Source:
cs.wikipedia.org.
This is a German far-left terrorist group founded in 1970 in tehdéjším West Germany. Its main founders were Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ennslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Möllerová and many others. The group was created on the background of the Vietnam war, but also a number of other events. 1. generation of the RAF is also sometimes referred to as the "Group Baader-Meinhof". In total, there were 3 group or generation of the RAF. Their targets were mostly the leaders of the political, or generally 'industrial' power and the repressive apparatus, and then the american troops, but it has also avoided the banking institutions. The whole history of the RAF is riddled with mostly questionable deaths of their members, when they should act on suicides in prisons, however, at least some of them are still questionable. The organization cooperated with the palestinian Fatah.
20. April 1998 was the agency Reuters sent a fax in which it was stated that the RAF is disbanded.
The hallmark of the Red army Faction is a five-pointed red star of the machine gun Heckler and Koch HK54 and of the letters forming the abbreviation of the German name - RAF.
Source:
cs.wikipedia.org.