White Aryan Resistance ( sv, Vitt Ariskt Motstånd, VAM) was a militant neo-nazi network active in Sweden between 1991 and 1993. The name of the group was derived from the US white supremacist organisation

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(WAR). According to

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, a researcher of white supremacist organizations, the group was rather styled on the then already defunct US white supremacist group The Order, led by Robert Matthews. VAM was founded by

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, other leading members were Torulf Magnusson and Peter Melander, editor of the group's magazine ''Storm''. The organisation's symbol was the "

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". VAM has been implicated in many serious crimes in Sweden, including the infamous Malexander police-murders, car bombings of political journalists and murders of perceived opponents. According to a report prepared and jointly published in November 1999 by Sweden's four largest daily newspapers, ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Dagens Nyheter'' and '' Svenska Dagbladet'', many former members of the organisation are members of present-day neo-Nazi organisations.Aftonbladet: Här är organisationerna som leder terrorn mot Sverige
/ref> After VAM, Klas Lund organised the self-declared Nordic Resistance Movement. Another VAM offshoot was the now-defunct National Socialist Front which was formed in 1994 by VAM sympathisers in

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