A Japanese leader and six of his followers were executed after being convicted in the Tokyo Metro attack

Japanese authorities on Thursday executed the leader of the sect who launched a deadly sarin gas attack at a Tokyo station in 1995 with six of his followers, 23 years after the horrific crime.

Shoko waited Asahara, the leader of the sect Um Shinrikyo, spent more than 10 years executing his sentence for crimes including the nerve gas attack that shocked the world and pushed the authorities to quell The sect.

The name Ohm Shinrikyu is divided into two parts Is derived from the Indian religion and means "universe or the world", and the "Shenricio" is 3 Japanese symbols, where "Shen" تع Z "truth", "Ri" means "right" and "that" means "religion", indicates that the community name means: the minimum and the fact that religion right. While others call it "the supreme truth" and a third group is called "absolute freedom".

Om Shinrikyo is a controversial extremist religious group and its members consider it an independent religion Shoko Asahara embodies the Hindu god Shiva and his followers

The sect was founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984, where he established an arena yoga in the Shibuya region of Tokyo, which later became one of the most violent sects in the history of Japan

. Community members are nearly 9,000 in Japan and 40,000 in various parts of the world from 1,500 to 2,000 members in 2004, and fewer than this number at present.

According to the BBC, the sect received official recognition in Japan as a religious group in 1989, and Asahara has succeeded in attracting many people around the world through his books and lectures at universities. At the peak of his business, the number of followers of Om Shinrikyo was tens of thousands

Most of his followers were students from the best Japanese universities.

The group gradually became a black minority who believed that the world would be buried in World War III and that it would survive the Holocaust

More and more, it became more and more violent, kidnappings, badaults and murders, even use of chemical and bacteriological weapons. She threw it.

It was here Attempts by some members of the group to plan the badbadination of some leaders of Buddhist groups as the president of Soka Jakai.

On March 20, 1995, a group of community members spread toxic sarin gas in a planned subway attack, killing 13 people. Close relatives of the dead and injured expressed their satisfaction to AFP: "You have suffered for years … It's impossible to forget the incident, but the executions help turn the page. 19659004] The French agency pointed out that the executions carried out yesterday are Ak The first of its kind in its implementation in Japan at the same time since 1911 when 11 people were hanged for conspiracy to badbadinate him 39; Emperor.