I don't even remember Waco. But someone was telling me about it today, and I usually hear balanced information here.
And I'm not a troll, serriously.
There was a man in Waco Tx. who believed he was the Messiah. He had a number of followers. The ATF wanted him because they alleged he had illegal weapons. His followers believed Armageddon would come and the government would try to kill them all.
Now this man came and went regularly as did his followers. They shopped in town and the locals would even go shooting on their property. These people were strange but no stranger than any other commune.
One day the ATF showed up in body armor and surrounded the complex, (there was a church and a daycare and storage buildings). They wanted to serve Koresh with a warrant so they barged in and two officers were shot by the residents of the place. In the shoot out Koresh was also shot but not killed.
Talks went back and forth as Koresh stalled for time. This lasted for weeks, in the mean time a TV movie was made about Koresh to sway public opinion against Koresh. The FBI took over and used a tank to punch holes in the building and insert CS gas. The FBI explained how the gassed them for eight hours in order to clog the masks they had. The FBI eventually set the building on fire killing over 80 men women and children inside.
In the aftermath charred bodies of eight year olds were found with broken backs due to convulsions from the CS gas, as they had no gas masks small enough to fit them. The FBI later came in with bulldozers and cleared the crime scene. Local authorities such as the Texas Rangers and arson investigators were steamed because the disruption of the crime scene made it impossible to tell what had happened for sure. The gov't did a joke of an investigation and swept it away.
The Governor of Texas at the time was Democrat Ann Richards who would be defeated in '94 by George W. Bush.
The people murdered by the government were of different races and even different nationalities. There were Brits and Australians as well as Americans.
I would suggest going to Amazon.com and searching for a documentary I first saw on HBO. I bought it at Amazon years ago and I believe the title was "Waco, a national tragedy" The cover shows the building in flames and the word Waco in bold red letters at the top.