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Friday March 27, 2009
MRTCG:
Nine years after cult inferno, Uganda newspaper wonders why government never investigated
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God On March 17, 2000, hundreds of followers of the the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God died in an inferno allegedly set by the cult’s leaders.

To-date these leaders have not been found.

A committee appointed by the government to investigate the incident too never took off because there was no money. For now, the world will never really know the full story of the deadly Kanungu cult.
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Monday February 11, 2008
MRTCG:
Uganda town takes over land that belonged to Kibwetere cult
Kanunga Town Council is set to attract investors to develop the site of the former ‘Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God’ that was led by Joseph Kibwetere in 2000.
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Monday December 11, 2006
MRTCG • Specioza Mukantabana:
Claim: Virgin Mary does not look for holy people
People say that Specioza Mukantabana is linked to the murderous Kanungu cult.
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Sunday December 10, 2006
MRTCG • Specioza Mukantabana:
Her visions inspired a massacre
Last month, thousands flocked a Catholic Church in Rakai in expecting the apparition of the Virgin Mary. The congregation piously prayed and sang, oblivious of the fact that they were gathered at a place that inspired the cult responsible for killing nearly all its followers six years ago
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Monday October 9, 2006
MRTCG:
Uganda Cult Tragedy Revisited
It is a publication about the March 17, 2000, Kanungu cult inferno, that gives even the tiniest details of how this fateful happening, a master plan of The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God alias The Movement came to be.
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Monday May 8, 2006
MRTCG:
Uganda: Ghoulish Plan for Cult-Killing Site
Church compound where nearly 800 people were murdered six years ago set to become a tourist attraction
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Tuesday October 4, 2005
MRTCG:
Six held over Kibwetere’s iron sheets
Police in Kanungu are holding six men suspected to have stolen iron sheets from Kibwetere's cult church, the Restoration of Ten Commandments of God at Nyabutogo village in Kanungu.
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Friday March 18, 2005
MRTCG:
Mystery surrounds Kanungu massacre
KAMPALA - It is Five years since the Kanungu massacre, but the leaders of the cult are still at large and there is no explanation so far.
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MRTCG:
‘I escaped from the camp’: a survivor’s account
Moses Niwagaba narrowly survived the Kanungu Kibwetere massacre. He told Francis Niwagaba his story.
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MRTCG:
Kibwetere massacre, the forgotten event
It is now five years since Joseph Kibwetere, a self-styled prophet and bishop, burnt up more than 1,000 Ugandans in one of the world’s worst massacres.
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MRTCG:
Who Cares About Kanungu?
--If there must be freedom of worship, let the legislature ensure that it does not get anybody's right to life
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Tuesday October 5, 2004
MRTCG:
Kibwetere Museum Due In Kanungu
Kanungu district authorities are planning to develop the premises where the "Kibwetere" cult church once stood into a tourist site.
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Tuesday March 23, 2004
MRTCG:
Kibwetere Site to House Tourist Hotel
Four years since about 1,000 people were murdered in a horrific religious cult mass killing in Uganda's south-western district of Kanungu police say they are still hunting the lead killers.
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Friday May 9, 2003
MRTCG:
Kibwetere In Israel, MPs Told
New Vision (Uganda), May 8, 2003
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Tuesday April 22, 2003
MRTCG:
Ugandan journalist sues UK firm over video on
BBC Monitoring, Apr. 21, 2003
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Thursday January 23, 2003
MRTCG:
No trace of cult leaders
New Vision (Uganda), Jan. 23, 2003
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Tuesday November 19, 2002
MRTCG:
In Kanungu They Are Desperate to Forget
The Monitor (Uganda), Nov. 18, 2002
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Thursday February 8, 2001
MRTCG:
Mary’s Flames: The Long Road To Horror In Kanungu
Erich Ogoso Opolot And David Musoke analyse the findings of a Makerere University study of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, the Ugandan cult that murdered over 1,000 of its members a year ago.
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Saturday March 25, 2000
MRTCG • Specioza Mukantabana:
Police Watch Cult Church
The Police have camped at Mbuye parish in Rakai where believers suspected to be part of the Kanungu group have gathered to celebrate.
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Friday March 24, 2000
MRTCG • Specioza Mukantabana:
Doomsday cult regroups in Rakai for feast, says RDC
Security has been beefed up in Rakai to counteract a feast organised by the surviving members of the Kanungu doomsday cult who are regrouping in the district.
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