{"id":80418,"date":"2018-07-07T09:18:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T13:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80418"},"modified":"2018-07-07T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T13:18:17","slug":"japan-executes-aum-shinrikyo-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80418","title":{"rendered":"Japan executes Aum Shinrikyo terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80419\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80419\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Shoko-Asahara-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Shoko-Asahara-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Shoko-Asahara-228x333.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Shoko-Asahara.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>AW1Ed sends us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2018\/07\/06\/national\/crime-legal\/aum-shinrikyo-guru-shoko-asahara-hanged-mass-murder-reports\/#.W0C6kLgpCUl\">the news<\/a> that Japan hanged seven members of the cult terrorists of Aum Shinrikyo, including their leader Shoko Asahara. The group was blamed for the nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in 1995 which killed 13 and injured more than 6,000. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hanging of Asahara has in some ways closed the curtain on the shocking crimes and dramatic events staged by Aum. But it also leaves several critical questions unanswered, because even during his trial, Asahara never explained the actual motivations for the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the 1995 sarin attack in Tokyo is remembered as a watershed event that deeply damaged a long-held sense of security felt by many in postwar Japan.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Asahara, 191 Aum members were indicted over a number of criminal acts \u2014 including murders, attempted murders, abductions and the production of deadly nerve gases and illegal automatic rifles. Twelve had their death penalty sentences finalized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are rumors in the Japanese media that at least one of the folks who were executed was awaiting retrial. But not now, I guess. He&#8217;s in Hell&#8217;s waiting room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us the news that Japan hanged seven members of the cult terrorists of Aum &hellip; <a title=\"Japan executes Aum Shinrikyo terrorists\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80418\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan executes Aum Shinrikyo terrorists<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}