Movement to Restore the Ten Commandments
The Movement to Restore the Ten Commandments was a Ugandan sect that gained notoriety through widespread mass murder in 2000. The cult leader and self-proclaimed prophet was Joseph Kibweteere , who claimed to be related to the Virgin Mary . The sect, to which the siblings Credonia and Angelina Mwerinde and Father Kataribabo also belonged, had split off from the Roman Catholic Church at the end of the 1980s , the leader of the Kibweteere sect was excommunicated by the then Bishop John Baptist Kakubi of Mbarara . The ritual focus in the group's thoughts and actions was the restoration of the ten commandments, the strict observance of which was to guarantee the salvation of the soul after the apocalypse .
The group first attracted attention in 1998 when the Rwandan government complained about violations of the child labor law and generally poor hygienic conditions in the school it ran .
The group's scriptures were A Timely Message from Heaven: The End of the Present Time , which all loved ones read at least six times. According to their self- image, the group was an ark of the upright in a sea of depravity and represented a corresponding myth of the hereafter, in which their followers would receive redemption, but the unbelievers punishment. Credonia Mwerinde was the incarnation of the Mother of God in the sect .
The sect had set its own end-time mysticism and set December 31, 1999 as the supposed day of the end of the world. When the earth persisted, some members of the group began to become suspicious of reports from survivors. They reclaimed their property that they had previously given to the community. Anyone who asked about his property disappeared in an unexplained manner. During a service in a church in Kanungu on March 17, 2000 , the first 530 sect members were killed. During the celebration, the sect leaders had the door boarded up, poured four cans of gasoline over the wooden structure and set it on fire. Joseph Kibweteere disappeared after the fire. It is certain that he is not among the dead. He was seen alive the day after the mass murder. In the next few days, several hundred corpses were discovered on the group’s other properties, so that the number of dead came to over a thousand in the end.
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- ↑ Sect burned in Uganda , ORF report of March 21, 2000, accessed December 28, 2013
- ↑ CWNews.com: Uganda Bishop Says Cult Leader Was Excommunicated , agency report from May 22, 2000
- ^ The celebrated downfall ( memento of January 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), German General Sunday Gazette of March 24, 2000