World’s most chilling cults, from Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo to Swiss sect Solar Temple
Kenyan homicide detectives and forensic experts from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations examine exhumed bodies from several shallow mass graves of suspected members of a Christian cult after starving themselves to death. Photo: EPA-EFE
World’s most chilling cults, from Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo to Swiss sect Solar Temple
- In Guyana in 1987, US preacher Jim Jones coerced his People’s Temple sect into committing ‘revolutionary suicide’, urging parents to give their children poison
- 700 members of an Uganda cult burned to death in 2000 after they locked themselves inside a church and set the building ablaze
Updated: 12:00am, 25 Apr, 2023
Kenyan homicide detectives and forensic experts from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations examine exhumed bodies from several shallow mass graves of suspected members of a Christian cult after starving themselves to death. Photo: EPA-EFE