Hostage-taking in the Japanese embassy in Kuwait in 1974
The 1974 hostage-taking at the Japanese embassy in Kuwait was an operation carried out by Palestinian terrorists . The occupation and hostage-taking ends with the Japanese government responding to the terrorists' request.
background
With the 1972 massacre at Lod Airport , the Japanese Red Army began a series of attacks on what the group considered worthwhile to start the world revolution they wanted . In this context, they also committed serious crimes in the Middle East in order to show solidarity with radical Islamic and pan-Arab terrorist groups there. On January 31, 1974, terrorists from the JRA and the PFLP occupied an oil refinery on the Singaporean island of Pulau Bukom in order to take control of a tanker there a little later ( Laju incident ). This was to serve to cut off the oil supplies from South Vietnam and thus to show solidarity with the DRV . However, the relevant negotiations dragged on longer than expected by the criminals.
The hostage situation
Five terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , in consultation with the JRA, stormed the Japanese embassy in Kuwait on February 6, 1974 at 8:30 a.m. CET . Some sources also directly name the JRA as the perpetrator and understand the PFLP as their puppets. The terrorists took ambassador Ishikawa Ryokô , embassy secretaries Kimrua and Soshuke Ito, and 26 other people hostage. By calling a newspaper, they then demanded that the terrorists involved in the hijacking of the tanker should be safely escorted to Kuwait in order to be guaranteed an amnesty there. It was also her goal to punish the government of Japan for fighting the JRA.
The end of the hostage situation
As anticipated by the terrorists, Japan exerted heavy pressure on the government of Kuwait through diplomatic channels and at the same time chartered a JAL passenger plane , which set out for Singapore on February 7, where it picked up the terrorists who had occupied the oil refinery and then followed suit Aden in South Yemen flew. There the occupiers of the embassy met with the terrorists from Singapore and they traveled back to Singapore together.
literature
- Laqueur, Walter: A History of Terrorism, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001, ISBN 0-7658-0799-8 .
- Jensen, Vickie: Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues. ABC-CLIO, 2011, ISBN 0-313-06826-7 .
- Robertson, Ann E .: Terrorism and Global Security, July 2007, ISBN 978-0816067664 .
Web links
- Kuwait embassy of Japan attacked ( Reutlinger Generalanzeiger 32/1974 of February 7, 1974, front page)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See for example Walter Laqueur: A History of Terrorism , New Brunswick 2001, p. 208.
- ↑ See for example Jensen, Vickie: Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues , ABC-CLIO, 2011, p. 582.
- ↑ See for example Ann E. Robertson: Terrorism and Global Security , 2007, p. 101.
- ↑ The Straits Times: Hijackers say: We are sorry (February 10, 1974, p. 1) Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
