An obscure non secular motion, believed to be selling an imminent end-of-the-world ideology, has been accused of partaking in sexual violence and compelled marriage of its personal members, together with youngsters.
The Socorro Bayanihan Providers, which was initially a civic organisation, has morphed right into a quasi-religious group that can be allegedly concerned in extorting cash from its members, in addition to the drug commerce within the city of Socorro, an island in Mindanao.
The organisation, now generally known as Omega de Salonera, has not less than 3,500 members, together with 1,580 youngsters. They’re reportedly sequestered in a closely guarded mountain enclave.
In current weeks, not less than eight youngsters managed to flee from the mountain neighborhood and offered harrowing first-person testimonies to the authorities in Socorro city.
Former members of the non secular motion say they believed its chief was Jesus reincarnated.
Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo studies from the group’s enclave in Socorro, southern Philippines.
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