Japan executed six members of the Judgment

Japan executed the last six members of the judicial sect, Aum Shinrikyo, who was at the origin of a nerve gas attack in the suburbs of Tokyo in 1995.

The founder of Shoko Asahara sect

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The current name was Chizuo Matsumoto, and six other members were executed by hanging on July 6th.

Through a series of attacks in the 1990s, the sect took a total of 29 lives. The most common attack occurred in 1995, when the sect used sarin nerve gas to kill 13 people during rush hour in the Tokyo subway.

Thousands of people have suffered serious health problems. a war zone where hundreds of people came out of the basement with breathing difficulties, runny eyes and blood of the nose.

Sarin is considered by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction prohibited by several conventions

The Aum Shonrikyo sect, meaning "supreme truth", was a Hindu and Buddhist spiritual group in the early 1980s, but then it was devoted to apocalyptic Christian prophecies, writes the BBC

Asahara, the group's founder. , said that he was both Christ and the first "awake" since Buddha.

The group obtained the official status of religious organization in 1989, and eventually won many members across the country.

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The group eventually developed into a day of paranoid judgment. They were convinced that the world was about to end as a result of a world war and that they were the only ones to survive.

Asahara said, among other things, that the United States would attack Japan and that it had traveled on time. 2006, and spoke with people about what the Third World War had been, writes Reuters.

After the 1995 bag attack, the sect became clandestine: Aleph or Hikari no Wa.

Aum Shonrikyo in the United States and in many other countries, the list of terrorist organizations. Admittedly, Alpeh or Hikari no Wa are both legal organizations in Japan, but they are considered "dangerous religions" and monitored.