biography
pronunciation:
[koresh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1960–93)
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| biography:
| Cult leader, born in Texas, USA. He was the charismatic leader of a heavily armed group of Branch Davidians (a sect which had split away from the Seventh Day Adventist Church in 1959) who were put under siege by federal agents at a ranch in Mount Carmel, Waco, TX, between February and April 1993. The siege ended after a devastating fire in which Koresh and many of his followers were killed. |
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