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Deadliest Cult Killings in Modern History
RUGAZI, Uganda (AP) – For days, the chocking stench of rotting human flesh drifted across the playground as police pulled the bodies of 155 sect members from a house on a hill overlooking the town’s school. While decomposed corpses were hauled from the earth and laid out for a pathologist, curious school children stood and watched in disbelief. To headmaster Frank Rwabambari, the stunned students at his school are themselves victims of the deadliest cult killings in modern history. Uganda, though, can offer the horrified survivors little help. "They must have been affected one way or the other. Definitely, some are having nightmares," Rwabambari said of the students, who range from 5 to 18 years old. "But we have no facilities" for counseling. Villages in southwestern Uganda have yielded the bodies of 924 victims of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. Of those victims, 530 burned alive in a church fire on March 17, revealing the doomsday sect’s apocalyptic agenda to the world and starting a search that would yield mass graves at three other sites. Authorities believe the failure of the world to end Dec. 31 led sect members to demand belongings they had surrendered to join the cult, and the challenge led to retaliation by sect leaders.
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