Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

598 • REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S LIBERATION PARTY/FRONTpetty bombings and acts of arson each year that fit the RZ pattern.By 1987 the RZ was credited by West German police with havingcaused over 200 million deutsche marks’ worth of damage. Estimatesof the membership in the early 1980s held that there were 50 to l00cells with a total of some 300 to 500 members. As early as 1978, theGerman Federal Office of Criminal Investigations (BKA) rated theRZ as “currently the strongest terrorist formation.” By April 1995 RZsympathizers claimed the RZ had been responsible for at least 200attacks since the group began. With the demise of the June 2 Movementin the early 1980s and the disbanding of the Red Army Factionin 1998, only the RZ remained of the three major anarchistic leftistterrorist groups that had not formerly disbanded. On 9 June 1989 IngridStrobl, an RZ member, was convicted for terrorist offenses andsentenced to five years in prison.It should be noted that after 1987 a women’s wing of the RevolutionaryCells was formed, called Rote Zora (Red Zora), whichcontinued to operate independently of the rest of the RZ and whichalso uses the initials RZ. Since the late 1980s members of Red Zoraremained active, with firebombings of 10 department stores of theAdler chain due to its alleged exploitation of female textile workers inSouth Korea, as well as other acts of vandalism. Red Zora differs fromthe rest of the RZ cells by stressing a militant profeminist agenda.The most famous RZ member was Hans-Joachim Klein, who alsoparticipated in the OPEC siege in Vienna in 1975. In an interviewin 1978 with the leftist French magazine Liberation, Klein describedthe RZ organizational structure. The organization is believed to havebecome defunct after the collapse of the Soviet Union.REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S LIBERATION PARTY/FRONT.The Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi/Cephesi (DHKP/C), which until1994 was better known as Dev Sol, short for Devrimçi Sol, or RevolutionaryLeft, of Turkey is a Marxist-Leninist anarchistic leftistgroup seeking to unite the Turkish proletariat to carry out a socialistrevolution. This group has acted largely as a leftist death squad,attacking Turkish rightists from 1978 to 1983 and striking at retiredTurkish security officials as well as U.S. and other nationals of NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries from the late 1980sto the present. The group is not known to have had foreign statesponsorship, although it is believed to have had contact with radi-