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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION AS Friday, April 28,2000 Ugandans Recover 55 More Bodies at House Rented by Doomsday Leader Cult blamed for 979 deaths; more grisly discoveries likely as officials resume search women, 15 men, 10 girls and eight boys from three graves in a garage attached to a small brick house in Ggaba, a residential area just south of Kampala. poli man Assuman Mugenyi said. He said the bodies bore no external taken to the municipal cemetery for Uganda, the last of four properties tied to the cult where bodies were found. Mugenyi said police had suspected for some time that there might be bodies at the Ggaba house rented by excommuni. cated Roman Catholic priest Dominic Ka taribabo,a leader of the Movementfor the Restoration of the Ten Commandments the cult now blamed for 979 deaths. But criticism over the use in the vil lages of unprotected prisoners to unearth burial. y Gravediggers clad in yellow plastic protective gear removed the bodies of 22 The exhumations came a month after t prisoners in shorts dug up 80 bodies andaskullfromacult compound in the village of Rushojwa in southwestern the bodies, coupled with international media coverage, prompted authorities to suspend the search until they had assembled the necessary equipment and logistics. : It was feared that the grisly discovery On April 6, police issued arrest war- Mugenyi said the digging at the Ggaba Credonia Mwerinde and three other cult leaders. Four women and two teen-age boys who had lived in the house vanished three days before the Kanungu fire. Before that, Kataribabo had been seen there often. in Ggaba would not be the last. rants for Kataribabo, Joseph Kibwetere, was finished, and authorities did not expect to find more bodies there. When several hundred people were reported to have perished in fire at a cult compound in Kanungu on March 17, the deaths were first believed to have been a mass suicide. Authorities later said 530 people were burned alive. When six bodies were found in a pit latrine in the same compound,and then 388 more in houses owned or rented by cult leaders in threeother villages, officials began to speak of mass murder. “We got complaints from people about the smell coming from the side of the garage two days after the occupants van- ished,” said Hamisi Kigozi, a local chief. “We did not suspect much, but people were complaining that there might be bodies there.” SHOP EXTRA HOURS SATURDAY 8 AM-10 PM’ Ue SATURDAY ONLY 15% STOREWIDE SENIORS’ DISCOUNT’ AMRae SEE SEPARATES SALE LE 14.9 ALFRED DUNNER ATE Ss coo! MISSES ¢ PETITES Sweaters,skirts, pants, more. Orig. 29-58, current 14.49-28.99. MISSES » PETITES * WOMEN Plus, Koret and Teddi. Knit tops, blouses,shorts, pants. 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