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...alike declare they would consider any concessions a betrayal. They will fight to the last man rather than give up one foot of the ground they have won. In an eerie way, the Serbs in Doboj are not unlike the Branch Davidians in Waco, devotees of a cult of victimization: isolated from the outside world, hunkered down against forces that want to remove them, certain of their beliefs. Like the Branch Davidians, they are ready for Armageddon if it comes. But they will not be moved...
...left Ranch Apocalypse before the conflagration and surrendered were forced to leave by Koresh for getting into the would-be prophet's Scotch cache. At first Koresh punished the three -- Kevin Whitecliff, Brad Branch and Oliver Gyarfas -- by ordering them to bury a rotting corpse. Finally the Scotch-drinking cult leader had them thrown out. The trio are being held in jail in Waco...
Once she moved to Waco, Sherri withdrew even more. She was impossible to contact, and she sought to end David's regular visits with Kiri. He grew alarmed when Breault, who had broken with Koresh, warned him and Sherri's mother of the abusive practices going on in the cult. Sherri, Breault said, was one of Koresh's favored wives. The gold pendant worn by Kiri, only 10, was a sign that Koresh planned to take her too as a wife...
...cult expert told her to keep going down, keep gaining trust. That was last January. Things had changed. "Kathy was deteriorating," says Isabel. Koresh still preached, but now the sermons Isabel audited contained profanities. She returned again in February. Kathy stared straight ahead and recited Koreshian dogma for 15 minutes running. Isabel talked with a friend about kidnapping the girls but decided against it. Instead she began calling every week, every week, trying to lure them from Koresh's grip...
...Cult of Personality: The mystery of Koresh's allure...