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Get killed and get to heaven
“Aum Shinrikyo”, translated from Japanese, means “supreme truth”. This sect was formed in 1984. The sect was founded by pharmacist Chizuo Matsumoto, who changed his name to Shoko Asahara.
He was born in 1955. In a poor family, he has been almost completely blind since childhood. He studied acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, the usual careers for the blind in Japan at the time. And then he became a pharmacist, but was punished for dealing in illegal drugs.
The views of the members of the movement were a mixture of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and Hinduism. But they interpreted religions very differently. Members of the sect believed that a world war would inevitably ensue between the United States and Japan, followed by Armageddon.
They also believed that all the inhabitants of the world who did not belong to the sects were doomed to eternity in hell, but the members of the sect would survive the end of the world and then establish the Kingdom of Heaven.
And yet, the sect members believed that the non-sects of the world could avoid hell in the only way: if the sect members were killed.
Reuters / Scanpix photo / Aum Shinrikyo member meditating against Asuhara’s painting
However, for a long time, the Japanese government turned a blind eye to a small sect of only a few dozen members. 1989 The Tokyo government has granted Aum Shinrikyo the status of a religious corporation. This gave the movement certain privileges, such as tax breaks and the ability to escape government control.
These sects provided an opportunity for growth. In just three years, the number of members of the sect has grown from about 20 to about 20,000. Followers of the sect appeared all over Japan.
The sect grew not only in membership but also financially. As all the new members of the sect had their personal property transferred to the sect, more than $ 1 billion was accumulated. Assets in USD.
And S. Asahara remained the sole ruler of the sect. A heavyset man in his 40s with a long beard and long hair, he always wore bright clothes and often sat on satin pillows meditating. He published books in which he claimed that there was a second reincarnation of Jesus Christ and that he could travel in time.
AFP / “Scanpix” nuotr./Shoko Asahara 1990 m.
Until 1995 March 20 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo attack were involved in various deadly crimes, but were not investigated until 1995, when Japanese investigators put them under attack.
1989 a lawyer and his family died in Yokohama. The attorney represented families who were trying to get their children back from worship.
1994 Sarin gas was used during an attack in the city of Matsumoto in Nagano prefecture, about 175 km north of Tokyo. There, the gas was released from a truck parked near the building complex. 7 people died and about 500 were injured.
It was only later that it became clear that the attack was organized by Aum Shinrikyo in an attempt to kill three judges who had to try a case against the sect in court. However, all the judges, although injured, survived.
The fact that several attacks were carried out and no one suspected them inspired the cult. It was decided to launch a new attack, the biggest of all.
Terrorist attack
1995 March 20 five men entered the Tokyo subway. They all carried plastic bags of liquefied sarin gas. They all boarded different subway trains on different lines.
At the agreed time, all the attackers dropped the sarin gas bags to the ground and pierced them with specially sharp umbrella spikes.
Then he got off the trains, left the subway, and sat in the escape cars waiting for them.
Zarin began to flow out of the bags and slowly evaporated. The evaporation of colorless and odorless gases began to spread and injured the occupants. They began to vomit, to sway. Some were blind or paralyzed.
But at first no one understood what was happening and the trains continued on their way. The passengers, feeling bad, simply got off at the stops.
At stops, the gas continued to spread, both through the doors of the wagons containing the suitcases and through contact with the clothes or shoes of infected subway passengers, who wore sarin.
Many Japanese who were injured in the attack simply tried to help people who had been injured before, not knowing that when they approached and touched them, they would become infected themselves.
Just a few minutes later, the trains stopped and doctors rushed to the metro stops.
AFP / Scanpix Photo / Medics provide first aid to victims after attacks
Thirteen people died and some 5,000 were injured. Among the dead were two subway workers who, realizing where the gas was coming from, tried to remove bags perforated with sarin from the train.
It was soon understood that it was a terrorist attack. A massive search for attackers began in Tokyo, with thousands of checkpoints popping up in the city.
Secret lab
The researchers quickly linked this attack to a previous attack that also used sarin gas. Aum Shinrikyo’s suspicion of an attack was almost immediate.
Two days later, the police searched the Aum Shinrikyo headquarters in Tokyo and other parts of Japan. During the search, it became clear that in the remote village of Kamikuišikis, at the foot of Mount Fuji, the sect not only had its own estate, but also a fairly advanced chemistry laboratory.
Scanpix / AP Photo / Aum Shinrikyo headquarters at the foot of Mount Fuji with laboratory
During searches, this laboratory found many canisters with toxic chemicals used in the production of sarin gas. Documents were also found proving that the leaders of the sect tried to buy a nuclear weapon from Russia.
A couple of months later, the leader of Aum Shinrikyo, S. Asahara, and a dozen people in leadership positions were arrested. They were found in a secret room at the sect headquarters in the same town.
Asahara claimed that his sect had no one to do here, but in the end several members of the sect admitted that the sect had contributed to the attacks in the cities of Tokyo and Matsumoto.
About 200 members of the sect were arrested, charged with intentional poisoning and other crimes. One of the main leaders of the sect, Hideo Murai, was not tried; While being transported to the detention center, he was attacked and stabbed by an assassin who claimed to be avenging an attack on the Tokyo subway.
The courts lasted until the 21st century. pr. Finally, in 2004, thirteen members of the sect were sentenced to death. Among them is S. Asahara.
His appeal was dismissed. Finally, in 2018. July 6 Asahara and six other members of Aum Shinrikyo have been executed.
Three members of the sect, suspected of crimes, have been in hiding for more than 15 years. One of them turned herself in to the Tokyo police in 2011. at the end of 2012, another was arrested in 2012. in June, and finally a third, Takahashi Katsuya, was arrested two weeks later.
The officers especially wanted to arrest him: Katsuja was the bodyguard of S. Asahara, suspected of driving one of the three cars used by the perpetrators. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
By the way, Aum Shinrikyo, although the name has changed to Aleph, it still exists today. Aleph is estimated to own around 2,000. members. Although the movement now claims to reject any kind of violence, it is still guided by the spiritual teaching of S. Asahara.
It is true that the movement is not popular in Japan: the Japanese often boycott any business associated with members of the movement.
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