 Millennium Doomsday of March, 2000
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Kibwetere (pictured at right) set up his cult in Uganda in the early 1990s, merging his sect with that of a local prophetess and former prostitute by the name of Keledonia Mwerinde. Their believers worked and prayed 12 hours a day in sugar-cane fields like slaves. True believers handed over their property to the cult and traded in their clothes for green uniforms and white caps. Men and women were segregated, sex was forbidden and fasting two days a week was mandatory. The members of the church spoke to one another only in sign language. One local resident explained, "They told us that if someone is talking at the end of the world, he won't hear the bell summoning him to heaven." In 1997, Kibwetere claimed 4,500 followers of Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God.
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