Image copyright Reuters Symbol caption Cult chief Asahara was completed in advance this month
Japan has executed the remaining members of a cult behind the deadly 1995 Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway.
The six men were the remaining individuals of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on dying row, and were accomplished on Thursday, the justice ministry said.
Seven others accountable for the assault, together with chief Shoko Asahara, have been placed to loss of life earlier this month.
The Sarin attack, Japan’s worst terror incident, killed THIRTEEN folks and injured hundreds more.
The cult used to be accused of several different murders and an in advance Sarin gasoline attack in 1994 which killed eight and left SIX HUNDRED injured.
Symbol copyright AFP Image caption Sufferers had been treated by means of emergency clinical teams
The toxin struck victims down in a question of seconds, leaving them choking and vomiting, some blinded and paralysed. 13 folks died.
Aum Shinrikyo, continuously shortened to Aum, believed that the top of the arena was coming and that those outdoor the cult would go to hell – until they were killed by cult participants.
In the months after, participants of the cult made a number of failed makes an attempt to release hydrogen cyanide in more than a few stations.
What is Aum Shinrikyo?
The cult, whose name approach “excellent fact”, began in the 1980s as a spiritual staff mixing Hindu and Buddhist ideals, later operating in parts of apocalyptic Christian prophesies.
Cult leader Shoko Asahara declared himself to be both Christ and the primary “enlightened one” considering Buddha.
Symbol copyright AFP Image caption The cult attacked with fatal nerve fuel
Aum Shinrikyo received respectable status as a religious company in Japan in 1989 and picked up a giant international following.
the group regularly become a paranoid doomsday cult, definite the world used to be approximately to end in a global struggle and that most effective they would survive.
The cult went underground after the 1995 attack, however didn’t disappear, renaming itself Aleph or Hikari no Wa.
Aum Shinrikyo is exact a terrorist organisation within the US and lots of other international locations, but Aleph and Hikari no Wa are each criminal in Japan, although special as “unhealthy religions” matter to surveillance.
