In 1985, Kathleen lost her brother Eddie, an American soldier, at the hands of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German left | dG1fVkJmY25VUE9vLUU
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00:00They showed me the pictures of Edward's body from the shot.
00:07At first we didn't know anything about when my brother had been shot.
00:12And then about a week later a letter arrived at a news agency
00:17claiming responsibility and they had sent in his ID card.
00:21This is where we come from.
00:24From the brainwashing of the media, from consumerism,
00:27from all the exploited peoples who are oppressed by imperialism.
00:32If the police fire on us again, we will shoot back.
00:36People feel there's nothing to be done about the situation.
00:40But the struggle has begun.
00:42To me the Red Army faction was just a bunch of monsters.
00:45They were just horrible, horrible subhuman people.
00:49And I had no problem in the beginning saying they should all just be lined up and shot.
00:57I was 15 when my brother died, so I've lived most of my life without him in it.
01:07And I've come to the point where I want to have a different relationship
01:10to former members of the Red Army faction.
01:12I'm not satisfied with the resolution provided to us by the criminal justice system
01:17in which we are all supposed to go our separate ways.
01:20You to prison, my family to our invisible grief on the outside.
01:24I think that is incorrect in counter to the sort of world I want to live in.
01:29I can't deny it, you know.
01:30Do you want to deny it, I've a new Cara's name, you know.
01:36But I can't deny, it's not a political means.
01:41What I've been doing done this, I've done it.
01:46If you say justice, I can say, it was wrong, pardon me,
01:47but I can't deny it, you can deny it myself.
01:50That can I say. But I can't regret it. I'm going to lay myself on it.
02:00When people kill each other, I hear the same story over and over again.
02:04Someone goes to prison and then usually what happens is that the surviving family members kind of disappear.
02:13And so I just want a different story.
02:20I'm going to lay myself on it.