It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre , a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay. A simple, white stone plaque was unveiled with little fanfare Wednesday at the jungle clearing where more than 900 members of the cult led by the American preacher Jim Jones died in a night of mass murder and suicide on Nov. 18, 1978.
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Guyana’s Jonestown suicide site gets plaque
It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre , a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay. A simple, white stone plaque was unveiled with little fanfare Wednesday at the jungle clearing where more than 900 members of the cult led by the American preacher Jim Jones died in a night of mass murder and suicide on Nov. 18, 1978.
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Guyana’s Jonestown suicide site gets plaque
Dangerous dismissal of psychiatry and mental health problems must be part of a Senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology , a Melbourne cult-counsellor said yesterday Cult Counselling Australia director Raphael Aron said Scientologists put vulnerable people at risk by taking them off psychiatric drugs and treatment, instead treating them with vitamins and E-meter readings.
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Scientology practices ‘putting people at risk’
Dangerous dismissal of psychiatry and mental health problems must be part of a Senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology , a Melbourne cult-counsellor said yesterday Cult Counselling Australia director Raphael Aron said Scientologists put vulnerable people at risk by taking them off psychiatric drugs and treatment, instead treating them with vitamins and E-meter readings.
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Scientology practices ‘putting people at risk’
Among other things, the rulings said the children faced danger of beatings and forced fasts ordered by 75-year-old evangelist Tony Alamo convicted earlier this year of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex and sentenced this month to 175 years in prison. In one of the appeals court rulings today, Judge Robert J. Gladwin wrote that the evidence “presented a clear picture of the danger to children in the ministry compound at Fouke.”
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Appeals court upholds removal of children from cult leader’s compound
Among other things, the rulings said the children faced danger of beatings and forced fasts ordered by 75-year-old evangelist Tony Alamo convicted earlier this year of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex and sentenced this month to 175 years in prison. In one of the appeals court rulings today, Judge Robert J. Gladwin wrote that the evidence “presented a clear picture of the danger to children in the ministry compound at Fouke.”
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Appeals court upholds removal of children from cult leader’s compound
