Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments cult of Uganda

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Fire Kills Members Of Cult In Uganda
By Karl Vick, The Washington Post, 19 March 2000. An early news report of the event. Other events associated with the cults and concern the government has failed to deal with this threat to society.
Silent Apocalypse of a Ugandan Cult
By Karl Vick, The Washington Post, 20 March 2000. The cult and its neighbors.
Death toll rises in Uganda suicide cult inferno
AA News, 21 March 2000. Provides the context of the spread of cults throughout East Africa. The reponse of the Ugandan government.
The preacher and the prostitute
BBC News Online, 29 March 2000. Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Joseph Kibweteere, the cult leader thought to be behind one of the worst massacres in recent history. Kibweteere, a Catholic church employee, a prostitute with visions, and a priest, found a cult that has led to the death of hundreds.
Quiet cult's doomsday deaths
BBC News Online, 29 March 2000. The Catholic cult, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, led a relatively uneventful existence until the holocaust that consumed hundreds of its members.
Ugandan Horror Grows
By Karl Vick, The Washington Post, 29 March 2000. Three days after the March 17 inferno in the main compound of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God at Kanungu, authorities found six more bodies in a nearby pit latrine. Then 153 corpses were unearthed at a second cult compound a few miles away, near Rukungiri. And this afternoon, while workers were counting 74 more bodies discovered on a hilltop here that the cult used as yet another campus.
Why The Cult Murders Went Undetected
By Katy Salmon, IPS, 7 April 2000. How people were indifferent to or ignorant of this social malaise. Signs of impending disastor.