...David Koresh's bloody stand at Waco, Texas; and, more recently, the horrific slaughter in Uganda of followers of The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, show how far unchecked messianic convictions can go. Yitzhak Rabin, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...

...perished in a church fire in Uganda apparently as part of a murder-suicide orchestrated by the leaders of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. The toll climbed to around 1 ,000 deaths as the bodies of other victims were found buried in graves...

...Kanungu, the remains of over 900 people were exhumed. The dead were recovered from the headquarters of the 'Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God'. They were the victims of a sect headed by Joseph Kibwetere, Father Dominic Kataribabo and a former...

...convincing in their eyes. 1 During a recent research trip (August 2000) to Uganda for investigating the case of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (several hundred victims in March 2000), I was amazed to see how some facts would make sense analogically...

...pending criminal charges and continuing suspicions following the 2000 cult killings of over 1 ,000 citizens. Unlike in the first half of 2000, there...Rukungiri Assistant Resident District Commissioner (ARDC) Rev. Francis Mutazindwa was arrested for failing to act on information about the activities...

...spaceship supposed to be traveling in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet. And in 2000 some 900 members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God died in Uganda in a mass murder-suicide. Two great scientific revolutions drastically changed our knowledge...

...subway poison gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo sect in Tokyo; the deaths of hundreds in a burning church of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Uganda; the persecution of Falun Gong in China - this is but a cursory list of some of the most...

...violence is usually directed inward, as in the 1978 Jonestown massacre or the 2000 mass death of members of The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Uganda, the apocalyptic rhetoric is similar. Youth alienated from mainstream institutions, including...

...cults and new-religion groups." The latest example, the massacre on March 17, 2000, of several hundred followers of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of С ïod in Uganda, although probably of criminal origin, illustrates the enormous danger for thousands...

...groups that will serve to highlight some of the dilemmas associated with the controversy. The story of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, the Ugandan group massacred by its own leaders in 2000, will be used to exemplify the concerns "anticultists"...