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Japanese Sarin attack victims still suffer

#1 camerata

Posted 22 March 2010 - 05:38 PM

Sarin attack victims still suffer

Physical, psychological scars of Aum crimes linger 15-20 years on

Victims and bereaved families of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system remain dissatisfied with how the incident was handled--including the police investigation, trials and activities of the remnants of the Aum Supreme Truth cult. Saturday marked the 15th anniversary of the attack, which killed 13 people and sickened about 6,300.

The series of crimes perpetrated by the cult group in the name of "relieving" society, including a separate 1994 sarin gas attack that killed eight people in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, and the 1989 murder of an anti-Aum lawyer and his family, have left a deep psychological scar on the victims.

http://www.yomiuri.c...322TDY02304.htm

#2 yohan

Posted 22 March 2010 - 11:22 PM

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Aum founder Chizuo Matsumoto, 55, remained silent during his trials and the trials of other cult members have progressed routinely...

Matsumoto's death sentence was finalized in 2006.

What else should Japanese Justice do about?

http://en.wikipedia....i/Shoko_Asahara

http://en.wikipedia....shment_in_Japan

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Supporters say that capital punishment is applied infrequently and only to those who have committed the most extreme of crimes—a single act of murder does not attract the capital punishment without additional aggravating circumstances such as rape or robbery.

In the 1956 debate, Japanese serial killer Genzo Kurita, who engaged in rape and necrophilia, was cited by the Diet as an example of a bizarre murderer.

However, the very small number of executions is due to the rarity of extreme crimes in Japanese society
rather than because of an unwillingness of the authorities to carry out executions.