What the records say
- When
- 17 Mar 2000
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 778
- Coordinates
- 0.75° S, 29.70° E
- Description
- mass deaths in Uganda
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Ugandan religious movement (1989–2000)
The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was a religious movement founded by Credonia Mwerinde and Joseph Kibweteere in southwestern Uganda, notorious for the mass death of several hundred members of the group in a mass suicide or mass murder in the year 2000. It was formed in 1989 after Mwerinde and Kibweteere claimed that they had seen visions of the Virgin Mary.
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