Cause And Effects Of The Waco Siege

The Cause and Effects of The Waco Siege

The Waco Siege or the Waco Massacre. That took place between February 28th, 1993 to April 19th, 1993. In which The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the Branch Davidians an apocalyptic new religious group. Got into a 51-day siege. Which ended up in the death of 82 Branch Davidians including 28 children and 4 ATF officers.

The cause of the Waco Siege that the AFT was told that The group was suspected of a range of illegal activities, including stockpiling illegal weapons and explosives, and also was abusing children, and controlling his followers through his religious teaching. The leader David Koresh believed he was the final prophet of Christ. On the morning of February 28th, the ATF came to the Branch Davidians compound at the

Shots were fired it is still argued if the ATF or the Davidians shot first. After a full-on firefight began and the ATF entered the compound thinking that all guns were stashed in an upper-floor room however the information that they got was untrue. At the end of the firefight, the Davidians were able to push back the ATF. In the end, 4 ATF agents were dead and 16 were wounded. 6 Davidians were killed and 11 were wounded. One of the wounded was Koresh who was shot in the stomach. The next day the ATF made a perimeter around the compound and called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) negotiation team. There started the first day of the 51-day stand-off. In the standoff, 35 Davidians left the compound which included 19 children. Almost 40 days into the siege the ATF and FBI grow restless about getting very few Davidians out of the compound and saw that it was going know where. So the agencies used psychological warfare to try to get the Davidians out of the compound. They shined bright lights into the compound and played Gregorian chants, Mitch Miller Christmas carols and Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking and also cutting all