Secret Organization Zero is no longer active.

Sekihotai is a shadowy right-wing conservative Japanese organization that was responsible for a series of small, but infamous terrorist attacks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  <P>  <br /><br />Most notably, the group was responsible for a number of shooting and bombing incidents against the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, a liberal Japanese daily.  The most serious of these incidents took place on May 3, 1987, when a Sekihotai activist entered an Asahi Shimbun bureau in Nishinomiya and shot and killed a reporter.  In their claim of responsibility the Sekihotai called the paper "anti-Japanese," and threatened to "execute all Asahi Shimbun employees."  No one was ever arrested for the attacks on Asahi Shimbun, and the statute of limitation on these attacks has since expired.   <P><br /><br />On May 19th, 1990, Sekihotai claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Korean community center in Nagoya. The attack was apparently in response to a visit by South Korea's President Roh Tae-woo.  <P><br /><br />Although little is known about Sekihotai's specific philosophy, many right-wing groups in Japan seek a return to Japan's military glory days of the 1930s, and demand an end to Japan's dependence on other countries for military protection.<br />

Sekihotai has not claimed responsibility for an attack since 1990, and by all accounts, the group has disbanded.

Self-Defense Groups of Cordoba and Uraba (ACCU)

United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) -- Umbrella Organization

Peasant Self-Defense Group of C&oacute;rdoba and Urab&aacute;

The Self-Defense Groups of Cordoba and Uraba (ACCU) was co-founded by Fidel Casta&#241;o Gil and Carlos Casta&#241;o Gil.  According to the ACCU, the group was formed in direct response to the kidnapping of Jesus Casta&#241;o, father of the Casta&#241;o brothers.  Jesus Casta&#241;o was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a socialist guerilla movement.  Despite receiving payment for Mr. Casta&#241;o's release, the FARC murdered him.  In response to their father's murder, the two Casta&#241;o brothers began working for the self-defense groups of Colombia, which had been formed to counteract leftist terrorists, such as the FARC.  In 1994, the brothers banded together several of the smaller paramilitaries to create an umbrella organization, the Self-Defense Groups of Cordoba and Uraba (ACCU).  <P> The ACCU was formed to protect those threatened by the communist insurgent groups, such as the ELN and FARC.  The ACCU protected economic elites who had financial interests threatened by the leftist terrorist groups.  In addition, the ACCU protected certain local communities.  Most importantly, the ACCU began to protect certain drug Colombian cartels soon after its founding.  While the Colombian military initially supported and trained paramilitary groups, including the ACCU, the growing connections between drug cartels and paramilitaries led to the severing of ties between the Colombian military and paramilitary groups in 1989.  Despite this, unofficial assistance from members of the Colombian military continued after 1989.