AUM cult funder Asahara executed with followers

AUM cult funder Asahara executed with followers

A television set up in Tokyo broadcasts news of the execution of AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara on July 6, 2018. Asahara, whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto, was hanged for masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other acts in the 1980s and 1990s that resulted in the deaths of 29 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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