LOCAL POPULATION IS MADE TO WALK INFRONT OF THE BODIES BY THE POLICE, 2000-03-30 (photo)

Two women cover their faces to escape the smell as they pass bodies which were removed from a mass grave found in the village of Rushojwa 250 km south west of the capital Kampala March 30. Over 600 bodies have been discovered in four mass graves up to today. Authorities said they had arrested a local government official for suspected links with the cult, after President Yoweri Museveni last week ordered an inquiry into reports that local administrators ignored warnings about the cult. Internal Affairs Minister Edward Rugumayo said police had arrested Reverend Amooti Mutazindwa, an assistant district commissioner in southwest Uganda, for allegedly suppressing an intelligence report that suggested the cult posed a security threat.