Ashes of Faith: A Doomsday Cult's Orchestration of Mass Murder in Africa - Softcover

Bwire, Robert

9781931882705: Ashes of Faith: A Doomsday Cult's Orchestration of Mass Murder in Africa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931882703 ISBN 13: 9781931882705

Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2015

The full, horrible story of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a Ugandan millenarian cult responsible for the largest death toll linked to a doomsday cult in recent human history. The three cult leaders, a half-insane failed politician, a defrocked Catholic priest and a former prostitute, proclaimed the end of the world on December 31, 1999 as a message from the Virgin Mary. When the world failed to end, the disillusioned faithful demanded that their property and money be returned. Unable to quell the rising tide of unrest, the cult leaders conceived a macabre plan to permanently stifle dissenting voices. On March 17, 2000, the cult led its unsuspecting followers through a literal baptism of fire. Over 550 men, women and children perished in flames as they waited for their salvation from a sinful world. Subsequent investigations uncovered a series of mass graves, bringing the total killed to over a thousand.

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About the Author:

Robert Bwire was born in Uganda and is now a journalist living in Scotland. He is the author of a number of books, including Bugs In Armor: A Tale of Malaria and Soldering. He currently lives in Edinburgh.

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