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Ex-AUM member Endo apologizes to sarin attack victims

Kyodo (Japan), Sep, 11, 2001
http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/display.jsp?an=20010911191 Off-site Link
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TOKYO, Sept. 11, Kyodo - Seiichi Endo, a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult, broke his silence Tuesday about the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack he is accused of helping mastermind, and apologized to the victims during his trial at the Tokyo District Court.

Endo, 41, told the court, ''It is true that sarin (gas) our people produced was used in the subway attack. I feel sorry for the victims and the victims' families.''

Endo had previously refused to testify about the attack in his trial or when appearing as a witness at hearings of other indicted AUM members.

He admitted he was involved in manufacturing the sarin at the order of cult founder Shoko Asahara, 46, and Hideo Murai, a senior AUM member who is now dead.
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Note that cult defender James R. Lewis denied that the cult was involved in the production of Sarin:

One of the Americans, James Lewis, told a hostile and evidently incredulous roomful of Japanese reporters gathered at an Aum office Monday that the cult could not have produced the rare poison gas, sarin, used in both murder cases. He said the Americans had determined this from photos and documents provided by Aum.
Source: Tokyo Cult Finds an Unlikely SupporterOff-site Link, Washington Post

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