Haruo Wakō

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Haruo Wakō (和光 晴生 Wakō Haruo?, born 1949 in Sendai) was a member of the armed militant group, the Japanese Red Army.

Haruo Wakō and two other members of the JRA were involved in the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in 1974. In 1975, Wakō and other members of the JRA seized the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Both seizures resulted in the successful demand for release of six fellow members of the JRA from imprisonment in Japan. [1]

On 23 March 2005 a Japanese court, presided by Judge Kunihiko Koma, sentenced Haruo Wakō to life in prison.[citation needed]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Police nab Red Army founder Shigenobu", Japan Times, November 9, 2000. 

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