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Joseph Kibweteere
Joseph Kibweteere
Cult leader
Joseph Kibweteere
Credonia Mwerinde, prominent and powerful Ugandan cult leader.
Leading members of the Movement for the Restoration
of the Ten Commandments
Police sift
through the belongings of cult members.
Villager lrom
Rugazi watches as more bodies are found.
Neighbours watch the bodies exhumed.
The classroom
of the children who died in the fire.
Religious icons were found around the
movement's compound.
Police put up a
sign warning of health hazards near the church.
Police reburied
the 153 bodies in a mass grave.
The burnt
church in Kanungu was bulldozed to the ground.
The cult's handbook appears to
offer few clues over the deaths.
Ugandan have many unanswered questions.
Villagers mask the smell of death with
aromatic herbs.
A police officer surveys the
burnt-out church.
Hundreds burned to death within Ugandan church.
Unearthing the bodies of the murdered cult
members.
Prisoners dig up the corpses.
Workers wore masks to protect against the
stench.
Bodies were buried in the priest's garden.
Local prisoners were used to exhume the bodies.
Some victims appeared to have been strangled.
A welcome sign at the cult's compound.
Relatives and friends make their way to the
site.
Many began gruesome task of identifying the
dead.
Many wailed when confronted by the remains.
Rosemary was used to hide the smell.
Little is left of the community besides
religious icons.
Children who attended this school are among
the dead.
There is no real hope of identification.
How many died in the remote area may never be
known.
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