Red Army Faction

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The Red Army Faction was a far-left West German militant organization active mainly in the 1970s and 1980s, known for its urban guerrilla tactics, bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations in opposition to the West German state and capitalism.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Red Army Faction canonical 6
Baader-Meinhof Group 1
Red Army Faction kidnappings 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf far-left militant organization
terrorist organization
urban guerrilla group
activeInDecade 1970s
1980s
1990s
alsoKnownAs Red Army Faction
surface form: Baader-Meinhof Group

RAF
announcedEndOfArmedStruggle 1992
carriedOutAttackOn Detlev Karsten Rohwedder NERFINISHED
Deutsche Bank chairman Alfred Herrhausen
Frankfurt US military base
Hanns-Martin Schleyer
US Army headquarters in Heidelberg
West German federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback
communicationLanguage German
countryOfOrigin West Germany
designatedAsTerroristOrganizationBy Member States of the European Union
surface form: European Community member states

West Germany
surface form: Federal Republic of Germany
disbanded 1998
endTime 1998
hasNotableMember Andreas Baader
Brigitte Mohnhaupt
Christian Klar NERFINISHED
Gudrun Ensslin
Hanns-Martin Schleyer kidnappers
Holger Meins NERFINISHED
Jan-Carl Raspe
Ulrike Meinhof
hasPart first generation of Red Army Faction
second generation of Red Army Faction
third generation of Red Army Faction
ideology Marxism–Leninism
surface form: Marxism-Leninism

anti-capitalism
anti-imperialism
inspiredBy Latin American urban guerrilla movements
New Left
Vietnam War opposition
namedAfter Red Army
notableEvent German Autumn
operationalArea West Germany
surface form: Federal Republic of Germany

West Berlin
West Germany
opposedTo NATO
United States foreign policy
West German state
capitalism
politicalPosition far-left
primaryTarget US military personnel in West Germany
West German security forces
business leaders in West Germany
startTime 1970
usedTactic assassinations
bank robberies
bombings
kidnappings
urban guerrilla warfare

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Baader memberOf Red Army Faction
subject surface form: Andreas Baader
Baader–Meinhof series mainSubject Red Army Faction
Bad Kleinen railway station incident target Red Army Faction
this entity surface form: Red Army Faction members
Andreas Baader memberOf Red Army Faction
Andreas Baader coFounderOf Red Army Faction
Andreas Baader involvedIn Red Army Faction
this entity surface form: Red Army Faction kidnappings
Red Army Faction alsoKnownAs Red Army Faction
this entity surface form: Baader-Meinhof Group