Family says Uganda cult killer once loving father
April 1, 2000
By Todd Pitman
KABUMBA, Uganda, April 1 (Reuters) - To his wife and children, Joseph Kibwetere was once a good husband, a loving father and a deeply religious man.
He lived peacefully with his family on a large estate in the rolling green hills of southern Uganda and rarely quarrelled with his family.
But that all changed when he and several Christian colleagues began a radical cult that is today blamed for the deaths of nearly 900 of its followers, half of them burnt alive in a small church earlier this month.
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05Apr2000 UGANDA: Uganda cult members shunned neighbours, never spoke. 09:17 GMT
By Todd Pitman
RUSHOJWA, Uganda, April 5 (Reuters) - Erneo Rwarinda lived a few metres from a house used by the fanatical Christian cult blamed for one of the worst mass murders in recent Ugandan history, but he knew remarkably little about them.
For years members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God - who included one of Rwarinda's brothers - spoke not a single word to him, communicating strictly with each other through hand-signs, written messages and prayer.
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Family says Uganda cult killer once loving father
