/ 27 March 2000

NOTHER MASS GRAVE IN UGANDA

UGANDAN authorities unearthed a mass grave containing dozens of corpses, including those of small children, at a third doomsday cult site in the southwest of Uganda on Monday. A journalist reported seeing tangled bodies deep in the grave after prisoners drafted in to dig unearthed 22 bodies on the property of a leader of the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God cult, Dominic Kataribabo. One of the police officers overseeing the operation said that the bodies were those of people who had been dead for less than three months. Investigations began after a March 17 blaze in a makeshift church run by the cult, when at least 330 people died in what was initially thought to have been a mass suicide.