3 years after the Sagamihara Massacre: this is how Japan's biggest massacre is remembered
On July 26, 2016, a tense and tragic event was experienced, when the news of a massacre occurred in a center for the disabled in Sagamihara, Japan. To this day, it is still considered one of the largest massacres in that country, which is why the Japanese and the whole world continue to remember this terrible date.
The actor in these events was a former worker at the residence for the intellectually disabled, which is named Satoshi Uematsu. In evaluating the case for the Sagaminhara massacre, Uematsu indicated that the 19 people who died were worse than the other residents and that they only sought to cause harm to the entire population of the world.
The entire tragic event was perhaps premeditated, because Uematsu had sent a strong letter, where he would explain his future actions, addressed to the then president of the House of Representatives of Japan. In it, he indicated the modus operandi that the author would apply at the time of carrying out the massacre:
The plan will be carried out during the night shift (...). The objective will be two facilities where many multiple disabled people reside... After eliminating 260 people in the two facilities, I will surrender ... My goal is to achieve a world in which people with multiple disabilities can be euthanized
After receiving the letter, Uematsu was taken to a psychiatric center, where the presence of marijuana was detected in his body. In this way, some time later he was discharged, although no one had imagined that, after this, he would be fully complying with his words "sober".
In this way, today Japan would live one day remembering this tragic event that shocked the entire nation. All this feeling of sadness has been amplified due to the recent intentional fire generated in the animation studio Kyoto Animation, which left more than 30 people dead.
