Japan released Fusaku Shigenobu, the founder of the Japanese Red Army, after 30 years in prison.
In 2000, 76-year-old Fusako, dubbed the “Red Queen”, was arrested in her country of origin, where she secretly returned after living in the Near East for 30 years, and announced her release from in his cell of the Japanese. Red Army in 2001. and after he was released from prison in Tokyo, many of his supporters carried banners that read “We love Fusako” as he rode in the car of a black woman with her son May .
Shigenobu was born into a poor family in post-war Tokyo in 1945, a World War II grocer who worked as a grocer after the defeat of Japan. In the sixties and seventies, while witnessing the movements of Japanese Students to protest the Vietnam War and the Japanese government’s plans to allow the U.S. military to remain in the country, he held a sit-in at a university in Tokyo and soon he was involved on the left. -wing movement and decided to leave Japan at the age of twenty -five.and took over the management of the international branch of a Japanese revolutionary group that disappeared a few years later, then formed the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon in 1971, where it was accepted by the Japanese Indians. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The “Red Queen” became popular in the 1970s and 1980s after her leftist group fired guns around the world in support of the Palestinian cause. Shigenobu also established relations with several Palestinian leaders, including the late journalist Ghassan Kanafani. He was assassinated by Israeli intelligence in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, in 1972.
Its leader, the “People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine” congratulated “Japanese fighter Fusaku Shigenobu for his release from Japanese prisons today” and said, “The Palestinian people will never forget what this fighter did. and his comrades in the Red Army. ” The army did it for Palestine and its purpose. ”
The “People’s Front” called on the “free people of the world” to follow the example of this Japanese revolutionary fighter who embraced his ideological principle and revolutionary affiliation as a reality by fulfilling his transgeographic international duty to fight with Palestine. ”. and the Popular Front. ”
Source: “France Press” + RT
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