branch davidians

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Definition of branch davidians in English Turkish dictionary

şube davidians

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Definition of branch davidians in English English dictionary

Religious sect that believes in the imminent return of Jesus Christ. It was founded in 1935 near Waco, Texas, by Victor Houteff as a breakaway group from the Seventh-Day Adventists. Under the leadership of Vernon Howell, a charismatic and apocalyptic preacher who would take the name David Koresh (1959-1993), it stockpiled weapons at its compound, where some 130 followers were living by 1993. That year, after a shoot-out in which four federal agents were killed, federal law-enforcement agencies besieged the compound for 51 days. The standoff ended, at the orders of Attorney General Janet Reno, in a conflagration in which some 80 members died, including several children and Koresh himself. Intense controversy about the precise circumstances and the necessity of the final assault led to a Congressional investigation, which in 2000 exonerated federal agents

{i} religious destructive cult that originated from the Adventists church and are best remembered for the 1993 siege of their compound in Waco (Texas, USA) by U.S. federal agents which resulted in the death of dozens of their members (including their leader David Koresh) when the compound burned to the ground

Hyphenation

Branch davidians

Turkish pronunciation

bränç dıvîdiınz

Pronunciation

/ˈbranʧ dəˈvədēənz/ /ˈbrænʧ dəˈvɪdiːənz/