Ugandan police have arrested 12 leaders of a doomsday cult that believes floods swamping large parts of the north and east of the country herald the end of the world, state media said Sunday.
Apocalyptic sects are a particularly sensitive subject for the east African nation, where another group killed nearly 800 followers in massacres and a mass suicide after its prediction the world would end at the start of 2000 failed to come true.
It has been among the hardest hit of 17 African countries ravaged by floods in recent weeks. Some 300,000 Ugandans, many already uprooted by conflict, have been affected.
I hate to be bleak, but these guys haven't seen anything yet.
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Yep. See "Kosvinsky Mountain" for data on Russia's still active "dead-hand" switch for post-nuclear strike retaliation tech.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2173108/pagenum/all/
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