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take her on as his seventh wife. Again, her marriage turned sour, this time due to her inability to conceive, even though she had three children from previous relationships. It was during this time that Mwerinde started to get blinding visions from the Virgin Mary. Her current barrenness the Virgin said, was caused by a decision of Mary herself to ‘withhold’ the unborn child.
     
    V IRGIN  M ARY
     
    The Virgin Mary started to appear regularly to Mwerinde, in her bedroom, on the sides of rocks and in the caves – which she returned to time and time again.
    Credonia tried to convince the Vatican of these miracles that had so unselfishly appeared to her, but there was not enough evidence or credibility for the Vatican to take it any further. Luckily for Ms Mwerinde a failed politician by the name of Joseph Kibwetere was on hand to listen and believe every word that she said.
     
    L OVING  F ATHER?
     
    Joseph Kibwetere had lived peacefully within the luscious green countryside of southern Uganda. He was a loving father and husband who rarely argued with his family and was known by many Ugandans for ‘his piety, his prayer and his good works’. He was active in Ugandan politics and was a devout Roman Catholic from which he founded a Catholic school and became a supervisor for other schools in the region.
    It is reported that from as early as 1984, Kibwetere was having visions and frequently hearing conversations, between Jesus and the Virgin Mary. In these conversations, the Virgin Mary complained about the world’s lack of regard for the Ten Commandments and prophesied that the world would end on December 31, 1999.
     
    M EETING OF  M INDS
     
    Kibwetere joined his ideas and prophecies together with similar-thinking excommunicated Roman Catholic priests Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, Dominic Kataribabo and two excommunicated nuns. There are conflicting stories as to when exactly their group was founded but in 1994 they registered as a non-governmental organisation.
    When Joseph Kibwetere met the self-styled visionary Credonia Mwerinde he believed wholeheartedly about her revelations and asked her to come and live with him and his wife. Mwerinde continued to have visions of the Virgin Mary and word started to spread about these amazing apparitions. Many people, mostly those suffering from infertility started to arrive at Kibwetere’s house with the hope of reaching the Virgin Mary through the human form of Mwerinde. Over the months, more and more people seeking retribution and answers, started to stay at the Kibweteres’ home and the group began to call themselves ‘The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God’. The group kept growing and at one time had increased to several thousand members with followers even in the neighbouring country of Rwanda. This caused Kibwetere’s relationship with his own wife and children to become strained and although his family had initially joined the movement they soon fell out with other members who called them ‘sinners’ and burned their clothes. Things at the commune got so bad that Kibwetere’s own family, including five of his own sons and daughters ran away. The last time the family were to see Kibwetere was in 1995 when he came to the funeral of one of his children who died of natural causes.
    The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God placed themselves within a remote farming community in the unstable south-west corner of Uganda and led a relatively uneventful existence as far as the media and the police were concerned until the horrid events that were to unfold in the year 2000.
     
    L IFE  W ITHIN THE  C ULT
     
    As with many African countries Uganda has a whole range of religious movements and groups, spreading a variety of messages and ideologies. The Ten Commandments of God had been fairly inconspicuous and was a registered charity that portrayed itself as being intent on spreading the word of Jesus with the aim to