Word: muteguya
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...building and its grisly contents--at least 330, and perhaps as many as 550, charred corpses--into a trench dug by prisoners, burying the physical evidence but not erasing the horror of one of Uganda's worst atrocities. "What most disturbs me is the children who died," says Gervis Muteguya, who lost five relatives in the fire. "Children are innocent. They had no choice in this...
Among them were Muteguya's mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law and niece. "I tried to stop them, but it was impossible," says Muteguya, surveying the long red-earth mound where they lie buried. "They were indoctrinated in a manner that if you tried to argue with them, they kept quiet. You ended up talking around like a mad person." Muteguya did manage to stop his relatives from selling the small family farm and late last year tried again to persuade his 16-year-old sister to leave the sect. "She came home to the village a few times...
...doomsday cult, of course. But the tragedy in Kanungu may slow the proliferation of indigenous churches, at least in Uganda. Last week the Ugandan government suspended registration of all new religious organizations and said it would stop all-night services in existing churches. "We have to do something," says Muteguya, clutching his black-rimmed glasses in both hands. "It defeats my understanding as to why my family would abandon their home and come here for this...