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Six former members of the Supreme Sect of Truth Aum sentenced for the murder of sarin in the Tokyo subway in 1995 were executed by hanging on the morning of this Thursday.
Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa confirmed that the six members "
" I gave the order to execute them after an extremely careful reflection, "revealed the minister.
Earlier this month, Shoko Asahara, the founding guru of Aum Supreme Truth, and six other members of the sect were also executed by hanging for their role in the sarin gs attack.
Shoko Asahara – his real name Chizuo Matsumoto – was on death row with other twelve hundred people involved in the attack, who killed 13 people and caused injuries, some irreversible, in 6,300 others. [19659002] 190 other members of the sect were sentenced to imprisonment, the worst in Japan
On the morning of March 20, 1995, realizing a well-defined plan, several members of the supreme sect, the sect created by Asahara, spread the sarin gs through the streets of u subway of the capital.
The sarin was placed in plastic bags in five compositions of the Tokyo Metr, that after being pierced by the ends of the umbrellas, they let escape the gas.
At first no one understood what was happening that morning, in the middle of the rush hour, when several pbadengers began to choke, without seeing anything, at several stations of the lines attacked .
seems to have been a repeat of the attack in Tokyo, seven people died in the central city of Matsumoto, where 600 others suffered several injuries, some definitive.
The sect was able to produce large quantities of sarin gs in a laboratory, reproducing a deadly product created by Nazi regime scientists in Germany in the late 1930s.
In December 1999, worship Aum admitted for the first time, his responsibility in the attacks on Tokyo and Matsumoto, and apologized.
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