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	Ten Commandments of God: Mass Suicide in Uganda
		Cult members locked themselves in the chapel early Friday and nailed doors and windows closed, then sang for a few hours before dousing themselves in gasoline and paraffin and setting themselves ablaze, said David Sseppuuya, deputy editor-in-chief of the government-owned New Vision newspaper, quoting investigators.
		Cult members from inside and outside the compound had been invited to a ceremony Friday to inaugurate the chapel, which had recently been built by Mwerinde on the graves of her parents, Didas said.
		Cult members sold off their possessions, dressed up in their finest white, green and fl robes, gathered in the church and nailed the doors and windows shut.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/uganda_004.htm (4519 words)

	cult suicide - Anarchopedia
		Cult suicide is that phenomenon by which some religious groups, in this context often referred to as "cults", have led to their membership committing suicide.
		In the beliefs of the cult, this was not an act of self-extermination; they believed that they were merely "exiting their human vehicles" so that their souls could go on a journey aboard a spaceship they believed to be following comet Hale-Bopp.
		At the beginning of 2005, the cult gained renewed media attention due to the premeditated[19] murder-suicide of former member Ricky Rodriguez, biological son of current leader Karen Zerby and informally adopted son of the group's founder, David Berg.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /cult_suicide (1644 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cult suicide is that phenomenon by which some religious groups, in this context often referred to as "cults", have led to their membership committing suicide.
		In the beliefs of the cult, this was not an act of self-extermination; they believed that they were merely "exiting their human vehicles" so that their souls could go on a journey aboard a spaceship they believed to be following comet Hale-Bopp.
		At the beginning of 2005, the cult gained renewed media attention due to the premeditated[18] murder-suicide of former member Ricky Rodriguez, biological son of current leader Karen Zerby and informally adopted son of the group's founder, David Berg.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Cult_suicides (2485 words)

	The Suicide Terrorists: Cult of Murderous Self-Destruction PIERRE CONESA / Le Monde diplomatique (France) 1jun04
		The suicide attack is a violent operation, indifferent to civilian casualties, the success of which largely depends on the death of the terrorist(s).
		The suicide attack was used as a weapon of war against the Israeli and UN occupiers in Lebanon in 1982 (3); in Sri Lanka in 1987; in the West Bank in 1994 after the Hebron mosque killings; in Turkey in 1995; in Kashmir in July 1999; in Chechnya in 2000.
		Suicide attacks, despite their religious presentation, usually derive from a fundamentally political logic; they can only be stopped by a serious process of negotiation.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2004/Suicide-Terrorists-Cult1jun04.htm (3334 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Cult suicide
		Cult suicide is that phenomenon by which some religious groups, in this context often referred to as "cults", have led to their membership committing suicide.
		The deaths of the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas is often considered a cult suicide.
		Mass suicide can also occur as a means of escape when a religious group perceives itself to be hopelessly besieged by its enemies or other adverse external pressure.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Cult_suicide (1032 words)

	Cult suicide - ArticleWorld
		Cult suicide is manifested when some religious groups known as cults order or encourage their members to commit suicide.
		In that year, 914 members of the People’s Temple cult committed what their leader called "an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world." Of the dead, 274 were children.
		Practitioners of the spiritual movement state that the group do not support such practices and the six people were either not members of their movement or they were killed by the government in order to garner support for their suppression of the group.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/Cult_suicide (413 words)

	Mass Suicide \| Holology.com
		Individual suicides preceded by such thoughts are fairly common events that affect all socio-economic groups but mass suicides are typically thought of as rare and affecting only brainwashed dupes belonging to strange cults.
		Religions and cults are both based on a theology or some element of fantasy that requires suspension of reason and critical analysis on the part of the individual.
		While individual suicide is usually linked to long term depression, group suicide is quite different in that the people are motivated and completely convinced of both the righteousness of their theology and attainability of the goal(s).
	www.holology.com /suicide.html (3168 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		A cult suicide is a mass suicide by the members of a cult.
		These people believed, according to the teachings of their cult, that through their suicides they were "exiting their human vehicles" so that their souls could go on a journey aboard a spaceship they believed to be following comet Hale-Bopp.
		Amidst political misuse of the term "cult" by the Chinese government, in the drive to eradicate Falun Gong, some commentators suggest the incident was staged in order to rally public support and escalate the persecution.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Cult_suicide (2012 words)

	French suspect mass cult suicide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some of the cult dead in last year's incident were found with plastic bags over their heads, injected with drugs or shot, raising the question of whether they were murdered or had voluntarily committed suicide.
		The bodies were laid out in a star shape in the clearing, their feet to a fire at the center, in what appeared to be a carefully planned repeat of the 1994 mass deaths, police said.
		Part of the cult's lore was sun worship, and laying the bodies out in this formation meant dying in the shape of the sun, purified by fire, cult experts said.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/12/24/cult.html (719 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Uganda cult suicide toll rises
		He said rescuers were unable to save any of the cult's members because the wooden shutters and doors had been hammered shut with nails.
		Witnesses said there were signs that the cult was getting ready for a big event in the days leading up to the fire.
		The BBC's correspondent at the scene, Martin Dawes, says while one of the bodies appeared to have the remains of a clergyman's collar around the neck, it was not known whether Mr Kibweteere died with his followers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/683273.stm (696 words)

	Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God - religious cults, sects and movements
		From a religious point of view, many of the cults are pseudo-Christian, which poses a big challenge to mainstream churches.
		Cult Apologists Rush In The New Vision editorial calls for a balanced approach that stands in stark contrast to the suggestions of cult apologists.
		Gordon Melton (who heads CESNUR USA, and is known to cult experts as "the father of cult apologists"), James R. Lewis (who told the Japanese that Aum Shinrikyo had not produced Sarin poison gas), and Catherine Wessinger.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /m08.html (2285 words)

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		But followers fear their religion could be misrepresented as a pro-suicide cult.
		Now some adherents, frustrated by speculation that the religion's stance on suicide might have played a part in Kelly's death, argue that their beliefs are being misrepresented.
		Suicide is always a tragedy, and there's no doubt about that," he said.
	www.cultawarenessnetwork.org /dbase/clippings/suicide.html (1176 words)

	SRI LANKA: LTTE AND THE CULT OF SUICIDE WARRIORS
		After Capt Millers' attack in 1987, the use of suicide bombers was resumed on July 10, 1990 with an attack in Valvettithurai in which three Black Tigers lost their lives.
		Unlike other suicide attacks, where the attackers are dressed in civilian clothes, the LTTE cadres at Katunayake wore the fl uniform of the Black Tigers.
		Suicide squads of Hamas in Palestine and Islamic terrorists the world over are also often conditioned by the groups to sacrifice their lives for the cause.
	www.saag.org /\papers19\paper1873.html (2409 words)

	Suicide kills cult (Site not responding. Last check: )
		RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. - Thirty-nine members of a cult of computer programmers systematically killed themselves with drugs and vodka after packing their bags for what they thought was a rendezvous with a UFO trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.
		Most were found with little pieces of paper containing a suicide recipe: take pudding or applesauce and mix it with phenobarbital, drink it down with alcohol, lie back and relax.
		The victims apparently committed suicide in three separate groups in a three-day succession.
	www.jhu.edu /~newslett/03-28-97/News/Suicide_kills_cult.html (141 words)

	The cult of suicide, the culture of failure - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Were Hamas not so intimately associated with the development and ideology of suicide bombing, it would likely be in a much better position to provide for its constituents, now suffering a concentric financial quarentine, with Israel the inner ring and the international community - and quick-to-promise, slow-to-fork-over Muslim donor states - on the periphery.
		A suicide bombing "makes the [Palestinian] camp happy," Nichole Argo, a doctoral candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of the study on bombers, told the Daily Star of Lebanon this month, quoting her research interviewees.
		Fox: Occupation is not an excuse for suicide bombers.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=707640&contrassID=2 (1190 words)

	Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God: A destructive cult
		Mass suicide: There is one initial report, never unconfirmed, that the members had applied gasoline and paraffin to their skin before the explosion and fire.
		If confirmed, this would be one indicator that the deaths might have been the result of a mass suicide, similar to that of Heaven's Gate.
		So did representatives of the anti-cult movement who are keen to promote their belief that mass suicide is a logical outcome of cult activity.
	www.religioustolerance.org /dc_rest.htm (2619 words)

	ZetaTalk: Suicide Cults
		Many will be horrified that we compare cult leaders, whom they consider evil and perhaps even possessed of Satan, to the male head of household, but the factors that lead followers to ritual murder and suicide are found in the ordinary household.
		If the head of the household has an unreasonable rule regarding his supply of refrigerated beer, and an otherwise warmly treated wife breaches this rule by treating her hen party to the husband's supply, then she is likely to conclude that she had it coming to her when he later bloodies her nose.
		Basically the cult leader, having established himself as the father figure or head of household in the eyes of his followers, begins to change the rules.
	www.zetatalk.com /beinghum/b06.htm (687 words)

	AlterNet: ForeignPolicy: Suicide Bomber Cult Is Alive and Well in Pakistan
		The numbers of would-be suicide bombers waiting in the wings in a region of Pakistan and the adjoining parts of southern Afghanistan are rising into the hundreds.
		Before long, Ali became one of the hundreds of potential suicide bombers that the commander of the Taliban, Mullah Dadullah, claimed to have at his command, ready to go out and take on the forces of the United States and its partners in Afghanistan.
		The situation is clear: the Bushies are creating suicide bombers faster than they can blow themselves and their enemies up.
	www.alternet.org /audits/41660 (2471 words)

	hgate
		Cult leaders employ a variety of methods to work their devotees into altered states of consciousness.
		Cult leaders, like Do and Te of the Heaven's Gate cult, utilize the power of peer pressure to conform devotees to predictable patterns.
		Or, as may be in the case of the Higher Source cult, that they are poised to shed their earthly containers and become pioneers of a new, extra-terrestrial civilization.
	www.cultbuster.faithweb.com /hgate.htm (1744 words)

	Former UW student committed suicide with cult members (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Among the 39 cult members found dead last Thursday in their Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., mansion was UW alumna Margaret Bull, 54.
		The members of the Heaven's Gate cult appeared to have committed suicide by ingesting a combination of phenobarbital and vodka.
		She joined the cult in 1969 or 1970 after teaching English in Spain for three years.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1997/033197/cult.033197.html (221 words)

	Cult News.com: French cult on suicide watch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cult members are often subjected to a type of coercive persuasion within a group environment that produces undue influence and dependence upon a leader for crucial decision-making and value judgements.
		Historically, cult leaders have often become deeply delusional and then led their followers to tragedy.
		After the Swiss cult mass suicide of the Solar Temple in 1994, which claimed 48 lives initially and many more later, French authorities are taking no chances.
	www.cultnews.com /archives/000396.html (325 words)

	Scientology --- Cult evolves around Suicide Bombers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In today's Palestinian parlance, an "operation'' means a suicide bombing or a gun attack that is certain to end with the assailant's death.
		There's no way to judge whether Badi really means to go through with it, but his words illustrate how the appeal of suicide attacks, once the domain of militant Muslim groups, is striking roots throughout Palestinian society and giving rise to a cult complete with rituals.
		Suicide bombings, which kill mostly civilians including women and children, have captured the imagination of Muslims the world over who see Israel as their religion's chief enemy.
	holysmoke.org /cos/suicide-bomber-cult.htm (749 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Cult Suicide Exposes Deep Troubles of Church in Uganda
		Behind the grisly details and the gory sensationalism of the record-setting mass suicide in Uganda March 17 by former Catholics involved in a cult known as the Movement for the Ten Commandments of God is the story of a Church in crisis that looks like a mirror-image of Amchurch.
		On April 5, the international news agency Agence France Press (AFP) reported that Kataribabo — shortly after he returned from his studies in Los Angeles — had joined a cult founded by a former barmaid and prostitute who claimed to be receiving apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
		Among the various reports on the cult's mass suicide, one of the most insightful and intriguing was provided by Charles Onyango-Obbo, a reporter for Uganda's Monitor, published March 22.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=2833 (2331 words)

	Canary Islands police foil supposed cult suicide plot
		A German psychologist on the Spanish resort island of Tenerife was charged with attempted murder and inducement to suicide for her role in a suspected mass suicide plot and was ordered held without bail, a court official told Reuters.
		The group, which may be linked to the infamous Solar Temple cult or a Hindu apocalyptic sect, had planned to kill themselves at the top of Tenerife's Teide volcano from where they believed their souls would be picked up by a spaceship, officials said, according to Reuters.
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	www.factnet.org /headlines/canary.htm (518 words)

	Inside the cult of terror - TV & Radio - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		THE Cult of the Suicide Bomber will arguably be one of the most timely, topical and disturbing television documentaries of 2005.
		Narrated and presented by Robert Baer, it's a thorough investigation of the "pathological virus of the cult of suicide bombers", as Baer dramatically puts it.
		In a style that is both chillingly detailed and matter-of-fact, it traces the latest wave of suicide attacks from the child martyrs of the Iran-Iraq conflict, via Lebanon's civil war and the bloody history of Gaza and the West Bank.
	www.theage.com.au /news/tv--radio/cult-of-the-suicide-bomber/2005/11/08/1131407640184.html (975 words)

	Ross Institute - TEHACHAPI UFO CULT
		The Tehachapi UFO Cult is the working name for a millennium cult that apparently operates in at least the United States, Canada, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
		Cult compounds exist in northeast Texas and the ideological headquarters for the U.S. appears to be in Tehachapi, California.
		The cult's cosmology is structurally similar to medieval Catholicism in that it is based on a physical structure of the universe which is interwoven with its spiritual structure.
	www.rossinst.com /tehachapi.htm (2278 words)

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