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The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandment of God was a religious cult in Uganda.

On March 17, 2000, hundreds of members of the doomsday cult were locked up in a makeshift church and set ablaze. What initially seemed like a mass suicide turned out to be premeditated killings that shocked the world. A total of 530 bodies were counted after the inferno.

Uganda authorities said that leaders of this doomsday cult appeared to have systematically killed other cult members for months before the fire.

Tuesday October 5, 2004

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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.

Tuesday March 23, 2004

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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.

Friday May 9, 2003

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Kibwetere In Israel, MPs Told

New Vision (Uganda), May 8, 2003

Tuesday April 22, 2003

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Ugandan journalist sues UK firm over video on

BBC Monitoring, Apr. 21, 2003

Thursday January 23, 2003

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No trace of cult leaders

New Vision (Uganda), Jan. 23, 2003

Tuesday November 19, 2002

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In Kanungu They Are Desperate to Forget

The Monitor (Uganda), Nov. 18, 2002

Thursday February 8, 2001

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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.

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.

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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