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🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | We're tracking some major breaking news out of Japan. The assassination of |
0:04.4 | former Japanese Prime Minister Shino-Abe. He was shot twice while delivering a |
0:09.7 | campaign speech. As the casket, |
0:13.0 | as the |
0:15.0 | as the casket of the man... |
0:19.0 | As the casket of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinso Abbe drove through the streets of Japan, |
0:24.5 | thousands of people lined up to mourn, prey, and place flowers at the freshly dug |
0:28.7 | grave of the beloved and controversial man. |
0:31.1 | His followers and friends remember him as a man of great |
0:34.8 | vision who had become vital in developing and maintaining peace between the |
0:38.4 | Asian countries. No one seemed to understand how or why the longest serving prime minister who had resigned only two years ago would be shot and killed. |
0:49.0 | As the country and the world watched on in disbelief, news began to appear with a possible explanation for a |
0:54.4 | sudden and horrific act of violence. Amidst the chaos, one group started appearing everywhere |
1:00.2 | you looked in relation to the shocking event, the Unification Church. |
1:04.9 | News outlets began reporting that this was an act of revenge for the 41-year-old suspect. |
1:09.8 | In the eyes of the shooter, the former Japanese Prime Minister was one of the many people he blamed |
1:14.1 | for crippling his family. Nearly 20 years earlier, his mother had made a donation, which was so |
1:19.2 | large that it bankrupted the family. While the shooter claims that he had originally planned to go after the church leader, |
1:25.4 | he turned his attention to Abbe, who had become just one of the many politicians who had |
1:29.0 | been associated with the group |
1:34.1 | the leader of the Japanese chapter of the unification church |
1:36.9 | aka the Moonies revealed to the world that the shooter's mother |
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