Otawara residents want AUM followers evicted

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture residents, holding anti-AUM placards, demonstrate July 11 in front a former inn used by two of AUM founder Shoko Asahara's children and about a dozen AUM followers as residence. More than 1,000 people took part in the rally in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture, demanding that they leave the city.

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