Japanese authorities execute 6 cult members

Six more members of the doomsday cult group Aum Shinrikyo who were behind the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 have been executed by authorities in Japan.

The attack killed 13 people and injured at least 5,800 people, some permanently, shattering the nation’s myth of public safety.

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After ordering the executions, Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa while speaking at a news conference said; “It was unprecedented level of extreme and serious crimes which must not happen again and terrified not only people in Japan but also foreign countries and shook the society,”

“I ordered executions based on extreme careful consideration,” he added.

All 13 members of the cult that were on death row have now been executed, after Chizuo Matsumoto, the cult’s former leader who went by the name Shoko Asahara, and six other members of the group were hanged on July 6.

 

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