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Did the leaders of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die at Kanungu, and how many people died in total?

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The commonly cited figure of about 778 dead is assembled from counts taken at the Kanungu church and several satellite grave sites, not from an identified register, and the victims at the satellite sites were killed over a period of months before the fire. Credonia Mwerinde and Joseph Kibwetere were sought and never produced. The Ugandan investigation was not completed, the remains were never comprehensively examined, and no identification exercise was carried out, so the total and the fate of the leadership are both unresolved rather than disputed.

What would resolve this Forensic examination and DNA identification of the remains recovered from the Kanungu site and the satellite graves, matched against surviving relatives, together with release of the Ugandan police investigation file and the 2000 post-mortem records.
OpenForensic anthropology and forensic genetics; Ugandan criminal records and archival research; history of religion in East Africa.David G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record, World Religions and Spirituality Project
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Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record
Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record
Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record
Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record

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Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record
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David G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010View the Source
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