The ten, kept literally.
No sex, including inside marriage; no lying, which is what the silence was for; fasting twice a week; property handed to the movement. Members sold land and cattle to join, which is why so few of them had anywhere else to be by March 2000.
Members joining brought their property with them and it did not come back out. Land and cattle were sold, marriages were suspended, and households moved onto the movement's farms — a rational thing to do if the world is ending in December and an irreversible one if it does not. This is the ordinary mechanism by which apocalyptic movements become inescapable, and it does not require anyone to be deceived about doctrine. By early 2000 a member who wanted to leave Kanungu would have been walking away from everything they had once owned and back to relatives who had told them not to go.
The subsequent discovery, in various locations, of mass graves containing the remains of people believed to be murdered, most of them stabbed, raised the death toll to 780 and possibly more.
CESNUR, Tragedy in Uganda: the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a Post-Catholic Movement, 2000Ugandan police recorded 444 exhumed bodies in addition to at least 330 who died in the Kanungu fire, giving a total of 778. The true figure is not established.
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