Radical group's record of terror

March 3, 1970: First action linked to the Japanese Red Army (JRA) when nine terrorists calling themselves the Red Army Faction and led by Takeshi Okamoto, JRA core-member Kozo's elder brother, and Takamaro Tamiya, force a Japanese airliner to fly to North Korea where they are still based.

August 1971 to February 1972: The 'Massacre of the Innocents', in which 14 members of the United Red Army are tortured and killed by their leaders at a villa north of Tokyo. Two policemen and a bystander are killed in the shootout that ends the siege.

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