Red Youth (Netherlands) Red Youth (Netherlands) Red Youth () was a communist organization in the Netherlands. It originated in the group around the periodical "Rode Jeugd", which had been started by the pro-China "Rode Vlag"-grouping in 1966. In October 1967 the group around "Rode Jeugd" broke away, and formed their own organisation, Red Youth. Lucien van Hoesel (born 1950) became the national secretary of Red Youth. Inside Red Youth two wings emerged. On one side stood the 'terrorists', who were inspired by the Red Army Faction ("Rote Armee Fraktion") and who saw the strategy of urban guerrilla warfare as a path to follow
Red Army Faction to the Reuters news agency, signed "RAF" with the submachine-gun red star, declaring that the group had dissolved. In 1999, after a robbery in Duisburg, traces of Staub and Klette were found, causing an official investigation into a re-founding. Again, in January 2016, German police identified three RAF members as being the perpetrators of an assault on an armored truck transporting €1 million, thus fueling suspicion that RAF might be active again. These robberies are seen as criminal and not terrorist acts. In total, the RAF killed 34 people, and 27 members or supporters were killed. The origins of the