Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Am I missing something here?
Why not just leave these guys alone?
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/01/russia.cult/?iref=hpmostpop
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Fourteen more members of a doomsday cult in southern Russia left a cave Tuesday after waiting inside for the end of the world since November, authorities said....
On Friday, seven other members of the cult left the cave and moved into the home of the cult leader, Father Pyotr Kuznetsov, who has been living in the nearby village of Nikolskoye.
Police detained him before he could enter the cave with his followers. He made several trips with authorities to ask cult members to leave.
The partial exodus began after authorities gave into cult members' demands that Kuznetsov be released from a mental institution.
"Huge work has been done to persuade those people to come out," Eskin said.
Until Friday, 35 cult members had been holed up since Novembers in the cave, in a ravine in Russia's Penza region, around 400 miles southeast of Moscow. They threatened to commit mass suicide if authorities tried to intervene.
The cult calls itself the "True Russian Orthodox Church" and said it would ignite gasoline canisters if authorities tried to force them out.
The ordeal began when Kuznetsov told his followers to hide themselves to await the end of the world, which he predicted will take place next May.
The 14 remaining holed-up cult members have sufficient supplies to last until then, Eskin said. ¶ 10:23 AM
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/01/russia.cult/?iref=hpmostpop
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Fourteen more members of a doomsday cult in southern Russia left a cave Tuesday after waiting inside for the end of the world since November, authorities said....
On Friday, seven other members of the cult left the cave and moved into the home of the cult leader, Father Pyotr Kuznetsov, who has been living in the nearby village of Nikolskoye.
Police detained him before he could enter the cave with his followers. He made several trips with authorities to ask cult members to leave.
The partial exodus began after authorities gave into cult members' demands that Kuznetsov be released from a mental institution.
"Huge work has been done to persuade those people to come out," Eskin said.
Until Friday, 35 cult members had been holed up since Novembers in the cave, in a ravine in Russia's Penza region, around 400 miles southeast of Moscow. They threatened to commit mass suicide if authorities tried to intervene.
The cult calls itself the "True Russian Orthodox Church" and said it would ignite gasoline canisters if authorities tried to force them out.
The ordeal began when Kuznetsov told his followers to hide themselves to await the end of the world, which he predicted will take place next May.
The 14 remaining holed-up cult members have sufficient supplies to last until then, Eskin said. ¶ 10:23 AM
