As the mass starvation in Kenya joins a terrifying list of cults that have ended in tragedy - either for their members, detractors or the general public - MailOnline looks at some of the most infamous death cults.
Human history has produced several cults. While cults are not inherently bad, the devotion of the followers' lives and sometimes the "after-life" to the
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Waco siege, a 51-day standoff between Branch Davidians and federal agents that ended on April 19, 1993, when the religious group’s compound near Waco, Texas, was destroyed in a fire. Nearly 80 people were killed. The Branch Davidians were founded by Ben Roden in 1959 as an offshoot of the Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Church, which had been established by Victor Houteff several decades earlier. Houteff’s group eventually moved to a farm some 10 miles east of Waco, Texas, but by 1962 Roden and his followers had taken possession of the settlement, which was known as Mt. Carmel. There the Branch