Japanese cult leader Shoko Asahara, once the head of Aum, the group responsible for the 1995 poison gas attack upon Tokyo’s subway system, is still on trial.
Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, has been sitting in court for almost seven years, reports Kyodo News Service.
Japanese justice grinds very slowly, but finely.
But now the man once revered as a virtual god and whose bath water was sold to followers refuses to speak.
Asahara who can barely see has chosen to also become mute, refusing to cooperate even with his attorneys. It seems the man who once spoke endlessly now thinks by not responding he is somehow in control.
Whatever.
Delusion dies hard. And Asahara’s variety of megalomania, relatively common amongst cult leaders, seems irrepressible.
However, whether Asahara deigns to speak or not the overwhelming evidence and testimony presented by prosecutors speaks for itself.
Asahara will be convicted and then probably sentenced to death.
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