Red Army member eyes filing suit to be removed from wanted list
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20101201p2g00m0dm018000c.html
December 1, 2010
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- A Red Army Faction member who defected to North
Korea after hijacking an airliner in 1970 will get ready next year to
file a suit together with the two wives of other members seeking
their removal from an international wanted list for their alleged
involvement in Pyongyang's abduction of Japanese nationals, according
to a Tokyo-based human rights group.
Yukio Yamanaka, head of the human rights group who visited North
Korea from Saturday, told Kyodo News that the removal of Kimihiro
Uomoto, 62, whose last name was formerly Abe, and the two wives from
the list is necessary for facilitating their return to Japan.
Yamanaka spoke at Beijing International Airport on his way back to Japan.
Yamanaka said he confirmed that the three consistently deny their
alleged involvement in the abduction in the 1970s and 1980s of Keiko
Arimoto and other Japanese nationals.
In the so-called Yodo-go incident, nine Red Army Faction members
hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 351 while it was on a domestic flight
from Tokyo to Fukuoka on March 31, 1970. The hijackers took 129
passengers and cabin crew hostage and forced the pilot to fly to
Pyongyang, where they were granted political asylum, while allowing
the hostages to get off in South Korea.
Starting in 2002, Japanese police have put Uomoto, other members of
the leftist group and their wives on the wanted list on suspicion of
having been involved in the abduction of Japanese nationals from
Europe to North Korea.
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