BERLIN, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Germany's opposition politicians have called for an official ceremony to be held in honor of the country's far-left terror victims.
The Free Democratic Party and the Green Party this autumn want to hold a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 34 victims killed by the anti-capitalist Red Army Faction, a German terrorist group that wrecked havoc in the 1970s and 1980s.
The ceremony would come 30 years after the "German Autumn," a period the RAF dominated with several abductions and executions of leading German industrialists.
The move comes as several convicted terrorists are being released from prison. Last Monday, a court in Stuttgart decided to grant parole to Brigitte Mohnhaupt, one of the RAF's leaders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She will be released at the end of March after 24 years in prison.
German President Horst Koehler is currently considering whether he will pardon Christian Klar, another RAF terrorist whose minimum time in prison doesn't run out until 2009. Another terrorist, Eva Sybille Haule, currently detained in a Berlin prison, may be freed later this year as her minimum detention time of 21 years expires in August.
Officials from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Party have called for the released to help clear up missing details in the murders; several killing cases have never been fully solved.
