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The Cult Dossier · No. 129 · Apocalyptic / Doomsday
Smaller lethal groups
composite entry
various · worldwide
XII. THE WIDER FIELD — CONCISE ENTRIES
various
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1978, Guyana See Peoples Temple (052).
- 13 DECEMBER 1990, Tijuana, Mexico TWELVE MEMBERS OF A SECT LED BY FEDERICO PADRES MEJÍA, including three children, are found dead in a small house in the El Florido district after a night-long religious ceremony; five more, among them the leader and a baby, are taken to a clinic. Police suspected either a fruit punch tainted with an industrial solvent or a leaking butane tank. It was never established whether the deaths were deliberate.
- NOVEMBER 2007, Penza region, Russia THE PENZA CAVE. Twenty-nine followers of PYOTR KUZNETSOV, including four children, one of them 18 months old, barricade themselves in a hillside cave near Nikolskoye to await an apocalypse he predicted for the spring, threatening to set off stockpiled petrol if removed; later reports put the group at 35. KUZNETSOV DOES NOT GO IN, and is charged with setting up a religious organisation linked to violence.
- MARCH 2008 After rain and a partial collapse, 24 members leave.
- 3 APRIL 2008 Kuznetsov attempts suicide on learning of the departures. He is later diagnosed with schizophrenia.
- APRIL–MAY 2008 Workers shoring up the cave find THE BODIES OF TWO WOMEN. Warned that the fumes could poison them, the last members come out in May.
- 13 JANUARY 2020, Ngäbe-Buglé, Panama THE NEW LIGHT OF GOD MASSACRE. A group summons villagers to its improvised church in a wooden shed; survivors say they were bound and beaten unconscious. SEVEN ARE KILLED — A WOMAN AND SIX CHILDREN — and their bodies are found in a burial pit; fourteen more are tortured.
- 3 DECEMBER 2021 A court in Bocas del Toro gives SEVEN MEMBERS PANAMA'S MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF 50 YEARS and two others 47 years.
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