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Joseph Kibwetere and Ugandan Cult Mass Murder/Suicide
Joseph Kibwetere and Ugandan Cult Mass Murder/Suicide
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Inasikitisha sana,wangefanyiwa kumbukumbu ya kuwakumbuka.
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Hili tukio,liwe fundisho tuwe makini sana na watu kama hawa.
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Kafanya jambo baya sana.
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Yani pamoja na hayo yote bado watu awapo makini kama yule mchaga ameanzisha kanisa na watu wanamuamini
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Ni hatari.
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Sana,wengi hutumia dini kufanya uovu wao.
Lakini wanaumbuka,kwa sababu lengo la dini ni Amani.
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By Patrick Ajuna
Kibwetere, the leader of the Movement for the Restoration of the 10 Commandments and his assistants, are wanted for masterminding the deaths of over 1,000 people. For 13 years now, no one knows whether he is alive or dead
Thirteen years ago, anticipation of great things to occur in the new millennium. Excitement greeted the dawn of the year 2000.
However, hardly had the celebratory mood cooled down than the world was awoken to the shocking news of a religious mass murder on March 17, 2000, in Kanungu, then within Rukungiri district in western Uganda. About 1,000 people belonging to the Movement for the Restoration of the 10 Commandments of God cult were killed.
New details emerging from the statement given by Kibwetere’s son, Juvenal Rugambwa, to the Police indicate that he identified a burnt body which had a ring like the one his father used to wear and a piece of cassock around the body.
In his statement taken in 2000, Rugambwa also informed the Police that he saw the usual clerical garb and shape of the head which he believed was his father’s.
Police's view
However, Victor Aisu, an assistant commissioner of Police attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), declined to divulge details of the post-mortem report, saying all bodies were examined at once and that releasing the results could jeopardise investigations. Aisu participated in the preliminary investigations.
SundayVision saw several documents including letters from State House on the matter, but an assistant commissioner of Police only identified as Swaliki, who was responsible for the documents, declined to release any of them.
About 450 people perished in the fire that gutted the cult’s church where people had gathered allegedly to receive the Blessed Virgin Mary and witness the end of the world. The rest of the bodies (550) were found buried in mass graves in different sites where the cult operated.
Initially, it was thought to be mass suicide, but later a commission of inquiry instituted by the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), established that it was a well planned murder orchestrated by the cult leaders, Credonia Mwerinde, a former prostitute and Joseph Kibwetere, a former teacher and failed politician.
Other cult leaders included Angelina Mugisha, Fr. Joseph Kasapurari and Fr. Dominic Kataribabo.
The 2002 UHRC report on the incident and other media reports trace the origin and background of the cult, how many people died, who killed them, why they were killed, where they were killed, how and where they were buried and the extent of human rights violations.
Unanswered questions
However, some questions have remained unanswered and no explanation has been given by the concerned authorities 12 years since the incident happened.
trueThe Government’s commission of inquiry report on the incident has never been published and there is no information on the Government’s response to the recommendations of the UHRC report.
The occurrence of this horrific tragedy, which is arguably one of the world’s worst religious mass murders ever recorded, was expected not only to be an eye-opener to the Government and the public, but also help put in place stringent measures to avert future occurrence of crimes of similar nature and magnitude.
In spite of the horrific mass murder, Ugandans have continued to embrace cults like the Faith of Unity in western Uganda under the leadership of Owobusobozi Bisaka.
Owobusobozi Bisaka
Besides Kibwetere, the whereabouts of his co-cult leaders remain unknown, and no further investigations were made despite the UHRC report recommendation to that effect.
Venus Tumuhimbise, the commissioner general crimes at CID, said Police investigations are still ongoing.
“Since the culprits have not yet been arrested and prosecuted, it means investigations have not yet been completed,” he said.
According to the Police report, the cult leaders may have perished with the followers.
The Police report noted that written documents left behind, including a letter to Kibwetere’s wife and records left with Police in Kanungu, encouraged the survivors of the inferno to continue with the religion.
“Documents received, including passports, identity cards and personal belongings indicated that the owners could have died in the inferno,” the Police report pointed out.
The UHRC report says on March 16, 2000, at around midnight, one of the cult followers only identified as Karangwa handed over some sect documents for safe custody to Kanungu Police Post.
There is contradicting information obtained from other sources, however.
According to Innocent Byaruhanga, one of the survivors, Kibwetere left Kanungu two days before the fateful day while other cult leaders left hours to the inferno.
Since Kibwetere has never showed up since the inferno, Tumuhimbise said he is for now regarded as a dead person. Quoting Section 20 of the Estates of the Missing Person’s Act 1973, Tumuhimbise said if a person goes missing for three years, he shall be presumed dead.
Other concerns
UHRC questioned the link between the resident district commissioner of Rukungiri, Kitaka Gawera and the cult leaders.
“The Government should establish the true facts that led to the then RDC (Gawera) to fraternise with the cult leadership in Kanungu to the extent that he laid a foundation stone on one of their buildings.”
However, his predecessor, Yorokamu Kamacerere, in his letter to the NGO registration board and personal briefing to his successor, advised against the registration of the cult.
However, Aisu said RDC Gawera executed his duties. “Police is not aware of allegations that the RDC was cautioned by his predecessor and NGO registration board against the registration of the cult.”
Despite the Kanungu inferno, a number of NGOs, especially those which are faith-based, are not registered and therefore operating illegally. Stephen Okello, the NGO board legal officer said the Police needs to find out which NGOs are operating illegally and prosecute them.
Gilbert Ogutu, a lecturer of religious studies at Nairobi University, cautions: “What happened in Uganda (Kanungu) should be a lesson to developing countries that such cults and sects should be monitored closely by governments so that this disaster does not repeat itself.”
If the concerned authorities do not act very fast to arrest the situation, the occurrence of Kanungu-like incidents would be inevitable.
Preceding events
The followers had been told that the Blessed Virgin Mary would appear to deliver a special message between March 16 and March 18, 2000. Women who had separated from their husbands even went home to persuade those husbands to return to Kanungu to wait for the message.
Followers believed they were going to heaven and they needed to cleanse themselves of whatever sins they had committed on earth. About 60 followers, who had not paid graduated tax, did so on March 14, 2000. l On March 16, 2000 at around midnight, one of the followers, Karangwa, handed over some sect documents (land title, articles of association, constitution and certificate of incorporation) for safe custody to Kanungu Police Post.
The cult leadership seemed to have been preparing for murder. According to Godfrey Bangirana, an assistant commissioner of Police in-charge of serious crime, the cult leadership bought 36 jerrycans of petrol at one of the petrol stations in Kampala on March 9, 2000, yet the cult had no vehicle.
On March 12, 2000, Fr. Kataribabo bought two 20-litre jerrycans of concentrated sulphuric acid from a one Musisi, a proprietor of Musco Agencies in Kasese, supposedly for using in the batteries of the cult vehicles. Pathologists found some traces of petrol and acid at the Kanungu site.
On March 11, 2000, Fr. Kataribabo sold his house and surrounding land to his nephew, where 153 bodies were later found.
Between March 6 and 16, 2000, all the property of the cult was sold at throw-away prices. The cult leaders claimed that they were selling the property to raise money to buy a lorry and a generator.
This story was done in collaboration with the Makerere University post-graduate investigative journalism programme
Kibwetere, the leader of the Movement for the Restoration of the 10 Commandments and his assistants, are wanted for masterminding the deaths of over 1,000 people. For 13 years now, no one knows whether he is alive or dead
Thirteen years ago, anticipation of great things to occur in the new millennium. Excitement greeted the dawn of the year 2000.
However, hardly had the celebratory mood cooled down than the world was awoken to the shocking news of a religious mass murder on March 17, 2000, in Kanungu, then within Rukungiri district in western Uganda. About 1,000 people belonging to the Movement for the Restoration of the 10 Commandments of God cult were killed.
New details emerging from the statement given by Kibwetere’s son, Juvenal Rugambwa, to the Police indicate that he identified a burnt body which had a ring like the one his father used to wear and a piece of cassock around the body.
In his statement taken in 2000, Rugambwa also informed the Police that he saw the usual clerical garb and shape of the head which he believed was his father’s.
Police's view
However, Victor Aisu, an assistant commissioner of Police attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), declined to divulge details of the post-mortem report, saying all bodies were examined at once and that releasing the results could jeopardise investigations. Aisu participated in the preliminary investigations.
SundayVision saw several documents including letters from State House on the matter, but an assistant commissioner of Police only identified as Swaliki, who was responsible for the documents, declined to release any of them.
About 450 people perished in the fire that gutted the cult’s church where people had gathered allegedly to receive the Blessed Virgin Mary and witness the end of the world. The rest of the bodies (550) were found buried in mass graves in different sites where the cult operated.
Initially, it was thought to be mass suicide, but later a commission of inquiry instituted by the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), established that it was a well planned murder orchestrated by the cult leaders, Credonia Mwerinde, a former prostitute and Joseph Kibwetere, a former teacher and failed politician.
Other cult leaders included Angelina Mugisha, Fr. Joseph Kasapurari and Fr. Dominic Kataribabo.
The 2002 UHRC report on the incident and other media reports trace the origin and background of the cult, how many people died, who killed them, why they were killed, where they were killed, how and where they were buried and the extent of human rights violations.
Unanswered questions
However, some questions have remained unanswered and no explanation has been given by the concerned authorities 12 years since the incident happened.
trueThe Government’s commission of inquiry report on the incident has never been published and there is no information on the Government’s response to the recommendations of the UHRC report.
The occurrence of this horrific tragedy, which is arguably one of the world’s worst religious mass murders ever recorded, was expected not only to be an eye-opener to the Government and the public, but also help put in place stringent measures to avert future occurrence of crimes of similar nature and magnitude.
In spite of the horrific mass murder, Ugandans have continued to embrace cults like the Faith of Unity in western Uganda under the leadership of Owobusobozi Bisaka.
Owobusobozi Bisaka
Besides Kibwetere, the whereabouts of his co-cult leaders remain unknown, and no further investigations were made despite the UHRC report recommendation to that effect.
Venus Tumuhimbise, the commissioner general crimes at CID, said Police investigations are still ongoing.
“Since the culprits have not yet been arrested and prosecuted, it means investigations have not yet been completed,” he said.
According to the Police report, the cult leaders may have perished with the followers.
The Police report noted that written documents left behind, including a letter to Kibwetere’s wife and records left with Police in Kanungu, encouraged the survivors of the inferno to continue with the religion.
“Documents received, including passports, identity cards and personal belongings indicated that the owners could have died in the inferno,” the Police report pointed out.
The UHRC report says on March 16, 2000, at around midnight, one of the cult followers only identified as Karangwa handed over some sect documents for safe custody to Kanungu Police Post.
There is contradicting information obtained from other sources, however.
According to Innocent Byaruhanga, one of the survivors, Kibwetere left Kanungu two days before the fateful day while other cult leaders left hours to the inferno.
Since Kibwetere has never showed up since the inferno, Tumuhimbise said he is for now regarded as a dead person. Quoting Section 20 of the Estates of the Missing Person’s Act 1973, Tumuhimbise said if a person goes missing for three years, he shall be presumed dead.
Other concerns
UHRC questioned the link between the resident district commissioner of Rukungiri, Kitaka Gawera and the cult leaders.
“The Government should establish the true facts that led to the then RDC (Gawera) to fraternise with the cult leadership in Kanungu to the extent that he laid a foundation stone on one of their buildings.”
However, his predecessor, Yorokamu Kamacerere, in his letter to the NGO registration board and personal briefing to his successor, advised against the registration of the cult.
However, Aisu said RDC Gawera executed his duties. “Police is not aware of allegations that the RDC was cautioned by his predecessor and NGO registration board against the registration of the cult.”
Despite the Kanungu inferno, a number of NGOs, especially those which are faith-based, are not registered and therefore operating illegally. Stephen Okello, the NGO board legal officer said the Police needs to find out which NGOs are operating illegally and prosecute them.
Gilbert Ogutu, a lecturer of religious studies at Nairobi University, cautions: “What happened in Uganda (Kanungu) should be a lesson to developing countries that such cults and sects should be monitored closely by governments so that this disaster does not repeat itself.”
If the concerned authorities do not act very fast to arrest the situation, the occurrence of Kanungu-like incidents would be inevitable.
Preceding events
The followers had been told that the Blessed Virgin Mary would appear to deliver a special message between March 16 and March 18, 2000. Women who had separated from their husbands even went home to persuade those husbands to return to Kanungu to wait for the message.
Followers believed they were going to heaven and they needed to cleanse themselves of whatever sins they had committed on earth. About 60 followers, who had not paid graduated tax, did so on March 14, 2000. l On March 16, 2000 at around midnight, one of the followers, Karangwa, handed over some sect documents (land title, articles of association, constitution and certificate of incorporation) for safe custody to Kanungu Police Post.
The cult leadership seemed to have been preparing for murder. According to Godfrey Bangirana, an assistant commissioner of Police in-charge of serious crime, the cult leadership bought 36 jerrycans of petrol at one of the petrol stations in Kampala on March 9, 2000, yet the cult had no vehicle.
On March 12, 2000, Fr. Kataribabo bought two 20-litre jerrycans of concentrated sulphuric acid from a one Musisi, a proprietor of Musco Agencies in Kasese, supposedly for using in the batteries of the cult vehicles. Pathologists found some traces of petrol and acid at the Kanungu site.
On March 11, 2000, Fr. Kataribabo sold his house and surrounding land to his nephew, where 153 bodies were later found.
Between March 6 and 16, 2000, all the property of the cult was sold at throw-away prices. The cult leaders claimed that they were selling the property to raise money to buy a lorry and a generator.
This story was done in collaboration with the Makerere University post-graduate investigative journalism programme
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Leaders of the cult had earlier on claimed that the world was coming to end on December 31st 1999. They asked their followers to sale property, hand over all the proceeds as they prepared their souls to meet God. When this did not happen, the leaders are thouht to have orchestrated a plan to kill the cult members.
Families who lost relative and friends are still haunted by this day day.
Residents of the area say that for weeks after the fire, the entire area was filled with the sickening smell of burning human flesh and later the smell would become one of putrid decomposing flesh.
Families who lost relative and friends are still haunted by this day day.
Residents of the area say that for weeks after the fire, the entire area was filled with the sickening smell of burning human flesh and later the smell would become one of putrid decomposing flesh.
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Nitawaita IDx waje wafanye investigation yao watengeneze kipindi.
There are many stories yet to be told and many scenarios yet to be looked upon
There are many stories yet to be told and many scenarios yet to be looked upon
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Swali la kuulizwa ni kwamba pesa waumini walizopeleka kanisani baada ya kuuza mali zao zilihifadhiwa wapi? Nafsi yangu bado inaniambia huyu Jamaa yupo hao
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Yah, atakuwa hai ndiyo maana alikuwa ana plan awaue lakini asepe na pesa yao.
Angekuwa ana mpango wa kufa asingewaambia wauze mali zao
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Inawezekana kibwetere alikufa ila credonia mwerinde ndiye aliondoka na ela maana ndiye alikuwa mastermind of the ocult
Joseph Kibwetere and Cult mass suicide
March 17, 2000 more than 500 members of the African "Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments" entered their small church in Kangngu, within the western region of Uganda. They sang for som......
March 17, 2000 more than 500 members of the African "Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments" entered their small church in Kangngu, within the western region of Uganda. They sang for som......
Binadamu hawa,wakumbukwe daima.
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MAISHA NA MIKASA YA JOSEPH KIBWETEERE NA CREDONIA MWERINDE....part i
Taarifa nyingi kumuhusu Kibweteere zitakuacha na fadhaa , ila kinachofahamika kwa uwazi japo kidogo ni kuwa Kibwetere aliwahi kuwa Mkatoliki alijitoa sana kwa Kanisa na kanuni za kanisa, zaidi ya taarifa hiyo ipo taarifa nyingine inathibitisha kuwa aliwahi kujiingiza kwenye siasa mwanzoni mwa miaka ya 1980 ambapo alikua mahiri kwenye kutoa na kujitolea mali kadhaa kwa wananchi hasa wanaoishi vijijini.
Miaka ya mwanzoni mwa 60 inasemekana aliwahi kuoa mwanamke mrembo wa maisha yake.
Mwaka 1984 alisema aliwahi kutokewa na Bikira Maria (Virgin Mary) ambapo baada ya hapo alianza kujihusisha na kufanya miujiza mbalimbali maeneo tofauti tofauti ya Uganda .
Baadae alipata “ufunuo” wa kufungua kituo cha huduma za ” kiroho” ambapo alianzisha kitu alichoita Vuguvugu la Kurudisha Amri Kumi za Mungu (Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God ) vuguvugu hilo liliwamega hasa waumini wenzie wa Kanisa Katoliki kule Uganda , na baada ya hao akaanza kufanya kazi za kichungaji na kinabii.
Mwaka 1989, Kibweteere akiwa kwenye hekaheka zake alikutana na Credonia Mwerinde(mzaliwa wa mwaka 1952) , mwanamke kahaba na anayejiuza ambaye katika nyakati zake za ukigori alikua akiuza bia za Banana maarufu kama Banana Wine huku Tanzania aliyekua anataka kutubu dhambi zake ili azaliwe upya kiroho. Alikua amekata shauri dunia kwaheri , akiitazamia Nchi ya Ahadi na mema mengi yaliyomo kwenye ahadi.
Basi naye Credonia alikua kajaa mambo, huyu alikuwa anawaambia watu kuwa anauwezo pia wakuongea na Bikira Maria, eti akilitazama jiwe Fulani hivi pembezoni ya mlima basi bikira maria alitokea , basi akiwa katika harakati za hapa na pale ndio alipoamua kuingia kwenye mahusiano ya kiimani na Kibwetere ili kuunganisha nguvu zenye miujiza.
Alipokutana na Kibweetere alimwambia kuwa Bikira Maria amemtuma na anamtaka Kibwetere wafanye kazi kwa pamoja kwa usatwi ewa Injili ya Mungu.
Hiyo ikawa combination matata sana ya kiroho basi hapo ndipo Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God iliposimama na kuvutia mamia ya wamama, wababa, vijana na kinadada wa Kiganda. Credonia akawa mchungaji wa ngazi za juu kwenye vuguvugu lile lililotishia uhai wa kanisa Katoliki Uganda.
Habari zao zilisambaa kwa kasi duniani, miujiza , matendo ya kusisimua yalionekana kanisani kwao, waumini hawakusikia la mtu, hawakutaka kuambiwa wala kutahadhalishwa kuhusu Kibweetere na mafundisho yake.
Hawa Kibweteere na Credonia walikua Manabii wenye upako ambao kila muumini aliamini watawasaidia kuwafikisha kwenye nchi ya ahadi ili kutimiza kusudio la Mungu la kuishi Milele na Milele .
Taarifa nyingi kumuhusu Kibweteere zitakuacha na fadhaa , ila kinachofahamika kwa uwazi japo kidogo ni kuwa Kibwetere aliwahi kuwa Mkatoliki alijitoa sana kwa Kanisa na kanuni za kanisa, zaidi ya taarifa hiyo ipo taarifa nyingine inathibitisha kuwa aliwahi kujiingiza kwenye siasa mwanzoni mwa miaka ya 1980 ambapo alikua mahiri kwenye kutoa na kujitolea mali kadhaa kwa wananchi hasa wanaoishi vijijini.
Miaka ya mwanzoni mwa 60 inasemekana aliwahi kuoa mwanamke mrembo wa maisha yake.
Mwaka 1984 alisema aliwahi kutokewa na Bikira Maria (Virgin Mary) ambapo baada ya hapo alianza kujihusisha na kufanya miujiza mbalimbali maeneo tofauti tofauti ya Uganda .
Baadae alipata “ufunuo” wa kufungua kituo cha huduma za ” kiroho” ambapo alianzisha kitu alichoita Vuguvugu la Kurudisha Amri Kumi za Mungu (Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God ) vuguvugu hilo liliwamega hasa waumini wenzie wa Kanisa Katoliki kule Uganda , na baada ya hao akaanza kufanya kazi za kichungaji na kinabii.
Mwaka 1989, Kibweteere akiwa kwenye hekaheka zake alikutana na Credonia Mwerinde(mzaliwa wa mwaka 1952) , mwanamke kahaba na anayejiuza ambaye katika nyakati zake za ukigori alikua akiuza bia za Banana maarufu kama Banana Wine huku Tanzania aliyekua anataka kutubu dhambi zake ili azaliwe upya kiroho. Alikua amekata shauri dunia kwaheri , akiitazamia Nchi ya Ahadi na mema mengi yaliyomo kwenye ahadi.
Basi naye Credonia alikua kajaa mambo, huyu alikuwa anawaambia watu kuwa anauwezo pia wakuongea na Bikira Maria, eti akilitazama jiwe Fulani hivi pembezoni ya mlima basi bikira maria alitokea , basi akiwa katika harakati za hapa na pale ndio alipoamua kuingia kwenye mahusiano ya kiimani na Kibwetere ili kuunganisha nguvu zenye miujiza.
Alipokutana na Kibweetere alimwambia kuwa Bikira Maria amemtuma na anamtaka Kibwetere wafanye kazi kwa pamoja kwa usatwi ewa Injili ya Mungu.
Hiyo ikawa combination matata sana ya kiroho basi hapo ndipo Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God iliposimama na kuvutia mamia ya wamama, wababa, vijana na kinadada wa Kiganda. Credonia akawa mchungaji wa ngazi za juu kwenye vuguvugu lile lililotishia uhai wa kanisa Katoliki Uganda.
Habari zao zilisambaa kwa kasi duniani, miujiza , matendo ya kusisimua yalionekana kanisani kwao, waumini hawakusikia la mtu, hawakutaka kuambiwa wala kutahadhalishwa kuhusu Kibweetere na mafundisho yake.
Hawa Kibweteere na Credonia walikua Manabii wenye upako ambao kila muumini aliamini watawasaidia kuwafikisha kwenye nchi ya ahadi ili kutimiza kusudio la Mungu la kuishi Milele na Milele .
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Ngoja waje
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Kondoo si huwa wanachungwa tu kuelekea kokote..huwa hawajiwezi kifikra
