Despite the arrest of VBSW founder Saw Tin Oo following the Thai embassy siege, the group remains active and has continued to attack targets in Burma and, allegedly, in Thailand. They have recently released a statement condemning the participation of other opposition groups in Burma's upcoming National Convention. The SPDC views the Convention as the first stage of a "seven-point roadmap" toward democracy, while independent analysts maintain that it is a sham and takes no real steps toward integrating opposition parties into the Burmese government or lessening the influence of the military in Burmese politics.

Vitalunismo is essentially a terrorist group comprised of one person.  The name was utilized during two airplane hijackings by Stefano Savorani.  During the two hijackings, Savorani claimed to be acting on behalf of the group Vitalunismo, as well as the group's religious wing, Avenismo.  <P> According to Savorani, Vitalunismo maintains three primary tenets.  First, Muslims should be killed.  Second, Europe should be integrated into a powerful single state.  And finally, all humans will eventually turn into UFOs.  The philosophical incongruity is apparently due to the mentally unbalanced state of the group's sole member, Stefano Savorani.  Europe's political unification was mentioned on several instances by Savorani, and it seems to be the central goal of this "group."

The first Vitalunismo  hijacking occurred in 1999 and was followed by another attempt in November 2002.  Vitalunismo appears to be solely the work of Stefano Savorani, a mentally disturbed man suffering from schizophrenia. In December 2002, Savorani committed suicide in prison.

There probably never was any organized terrorist group called the Waffen SS.  More than likely, the group that attacked the World War II memorial in Dobele, Latvia, in May 1998, was made up of fanatical Latvian nationalists, who today lionize the older generation that served in Hitler's Waffen SS during World War II.  Anti-Russian and anti-Semitic, this extreme form of Latvian nationalism has taken off since the fall of the Soviet Union.  Former Waffen SS units hold parades in the streets of Latvia's major cities, and parliamentarians and military officials frequently attend; the President only stopped attending in the late nineties after much international protest.  Spokesmen say that the celebration of Hitler's Latvian units is meant as anti-Communist, not pro-Nazi.  But the bombings of Jewish cemeteries and the presence of swastika graffiti in parts of Latvia suggest that at least some of Hitler's ideas hold sway among segments of the population.  Given the twisted view of history being taken by many Latvian nationalists today, it makes sense that the individuals responsible for the Dobele bombing would claim responsibility in the name of the Waffen SS.  <br />