South Tyrolean Liberation Committee
The South Tyrolean Liberation Committee (German: Befreiungsausschuss Südtirol, abbreviated BAS) was an underground secessionist and terrorist organisation founded by Sepp Kerschbaumer and several combatants including Georg Klotz in the mid-1950s which aimed to achieve the right for self-determination for South Tyrol and the related secession from Italy via bomb attacks.[1]
History
The organisation's history can be divided into two stages.
After the subsequent imprisonment of almost all leading members, a second, more violent phase began. This second phase was characterised by an increasing infiltration of Austrian and German neo-Nazis and intensified secret service activities which culminated in several assassinations and ambushes on Italian security forces, with the 1967 attack on a security patrol at Cima Vallona being the most notorious.[3]
With the progression of negotiations concerning South Tyrolean autonomy in the late 1960s, the BAS became less active.[4]
References
- ISBN 978-3-7065-4783-3.
- ISBN 978-0-7658-0800-4
- ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4
- ISBN 3-7065-1348-X.