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Shoko Ashahara, head of Japanese justice, Aum Shonrikyo, was executed, writes Kyodo News
The Justice Ministry of Japan has not yet confirmed the execution, writes NTB.
The 63-year-old sectarian whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, had been sentenced to death for being behind the deadly Sarang attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, which cost the lives of 13 people. Several thousand were injured.
In addition to Ashahara, nine other sects are sentenced to death. Ashahara is the first to be executed.
The Beast of Multiple Attacks
Ashahara is also found guilty of having been behind the sarcastic attack at Matsumoto in 1994, where eight people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. In addition, the area is guilty of the murder of the lawyer Tsutsimi Sakamoto, the wife of the lawyer and his son a year.
Sakamoto helped parents who had children in the cult to take the children out.
The Aum Shonrikyo sect "The Supreme Truth" was a Hindu and Buddhist spiritual group in the early 1980s, but later devoted itself to the apocalyptic Christian prophecies, writes the BBC.
Ashahara, the founder of the group, declared that he was both Christ and the first "awake" since Buddha.
The group achieved official status of religious organization in 1989 and eventually won many members around the world.
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19659006] The group eventually developed to become a paranoid cult damaged. 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.
Ashahara 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 World War III had been, writes Reuters.
After a lengthy trial, Ashahara received the death sentence in 2004.
– We can not help but notice is completely shocking and ridiculous while he was trying to control Japan at name of salvation, it is in judgment.
During the trial, Ashahara did not recognize. He never explained, but made some unanimous remarks.
After the herring attack of 1995, the sect became clandestine, renamed: Aleph or Hikari no Wa.
Aum Shonrikyo is in the United States and in many other countries, list of terrorist organizations. Admittedly, Alpeh or Hikari no Wa are both legal organizations in Japan, but they are considered "dangerous religions" and monitored.
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