11.   A number of former followers and people who were abducted by the cult have told of being injected with unknown drugs.

12.   A lawyer who represented former followers disappeared along with his family and has not been found.

13.   Although the three no longer command any troops, their former followers apparently did not want to give them up.

14.   At the time, Sakamoto was preparing a lawsuit against Aum Shinri Kyo by parents whose children were members and by former followers trying to recover donations.

15.   But a series of former followers have come forth recently saying the utopian image the group tries to cultivate is a sham.

16.   But former followers and families of current members charge the children are brainwashed with religious dogma.

17.   Former followers also say they felt pressure to make large donations to the church.

18.   Former AUM followers have said AUM Moscow branch members gave them powder and pills, saying they are vitamins.

19.   Former followers also have told police that the cult secretly cremated the bodies of sect members who died and scattered the ashes near Mount Fuji, the Yomiuri reported.

20.   Former followers say cult children are often separated from their parents and crammed into small, filthy rooms.