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Former Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti poses for a picture ...
Jan 26th, 2012
(Reuters) - Former Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti poses for a picture with his book during the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre January 26, 2012. Battisti, once part of a group called "Armed Proletarians for Communism", was convicted in Italy of four murders committed during the period of far-left violence in the 1970s known in Italy as the "Years of Lead". REUTERS/Edison Vara (BRAZIL - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) -
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