After the discovery of more than 50 dead cult members believed to have starved to death in Kenya, sects around the world have already claimed thousands of human lives, and children have not been spared, reports N1.
Apocalypse in the jungle in Guyana, 914 dead
In the jungle in the South American state of Guyana on November 18, 1978, 914 members of the American sect died, including many children.
They were led to their deaths by the charismatic American preacher Jim Jones, who forced members of the People's Temple sect to commit "revolutionary suicide" by persuading parents to poison their children, while others were killed while trying to escape or forced to drink the poison.
Jones, who moved his followers from San Francisco to Guyana to avoid US authorities, was found dead, shot in the head. It has not been established whether he committed suicide or was murdered.
More than 700 dead in Uganda
A similar case happened in March 2020 in southwestern Uganda, in the Kanungu district, where about 700 members of the Movement for the Restoration of God's 10 Commandments burned to death.
Members of the sect, who believed that the world would end at the end of the millennium, were locked in a church whose doors and windows were locked from the outside. The building was then set on fire. The leaders of the sect, suspected of these murders, have never been found.
Waco siege: nearly 80 dead
In 1993, 76 members of the sect in Waco, Texas, including 20 children, died in a fire in their wooden fortress that was raided by federal agents after a 51-day siege.
David Koresh, the charismatic leader of the Branch Davidian sect, which broke away from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, died with his followers.
US authorities accused the sect of stockpiling weapons and had an arrest warrant for Koresh and a search warrant for the compound.
1994: Temple of the Sun
The bodies of 48 members of the apocalyptic sect Temple of the Sun, including its leaders, were discovered in October 1994 in the Swiss villages of Chery and Grange sur Salvan.
More than 70 members of the sect founded by the homeopath have died, including 10 people in the Canadian province of Quebec and 16 people in the Vercros mountains in southeastern France.
Some left letters suggesting they had committed mass suicide, but investigators believe nearly two-thirds of the dead were likely murdered.
Poisoning in the Heaven's Gate Sect
In 1997, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate sect in San Diego, California committed mass suicide by poisoning after the arrival of Comet Hale-Bopp, which they took as a sign that they should leave Earth. Among the dead is the co-founder of the sect, Marshall Applewhite.
Bonnie Nettles, another co-founder of the sect that believed its members could transform into immortal aliens if they discarded their human nature, died of cancer in 1985.
Sarin attack in Japan
The apocalyptic sect Aum Shinrikio is responsible for the infamous 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack that killed 13 people and sickened thousands.
The chemical was released in liquid form at five locations during peak traffic.
At the sect's headquarters near Mount Fuji, authorities found a factory capable of producing enough sarin to kill millions of people.
For this crime, 13 members of the sect were executed, including its almost blind leader Shoko Asahara.
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