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The Terrifying Tale of Aum Shinrikyo, Chapter Two: "Save The World By Ending It"
Manage episode 492538165 series 2152818
As the Aum Shinrikyo movements gains national, then global, attention, the founder Shoko Asahara begins to move his followers in a darker direction. Convinced that the world can only truly be saved through mass casualty events, Asahara first predicts massive disasters -- and then orders his followers to create these events themselves. In chapter two of this strange two-part series, Ben and Matt learn how Aum committed multiple acts of terror, murder, extortion and fraud leading up to their infamous sarin attacks on the Tokyo subway... and what happened to the cult in the aftermath.
They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1867 episodes
Manage episode 492538165 series 2152818
As the Aum Shinrikyo movements gains national, then global, attention, the founder Shoko Asahara begins to move his followers in a darker direction. Convinced that the world can only truly be saved through mass casualty events, Asahara first predicts massive disasters -- and then orders his followers to create these events themselves. In chapter two of this strange two-part series, Ben and Matt learn how Aum committed multiple acts of terror, murder, extortion and fraud leading up to their infamous sarin attacks on the Tokyo subway... and what happened to the cult in the aftermath.
They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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