Kenyan Court Convicts Cult Leader Paul Mackenzie of Mass Murder
A court in Kenya has convicted cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of mass murder. He had told his followers in a remote forest to fast for salvation, and his trial followed the exhumation of hundreds of bodies.
A court in Kenya, an East African country, has convicted cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of mass murder, The New York Times reported.
Mackenzie led a religious group whose members believed in an approaching end of the world. According to the report, he told his followers, who were living in a remote forest, to fast in order to be saved.
He was put on trial after hundreds of bodies were exhumed. Those deaths are the basis of the mass murder case against him.
The short summary available from the source gives no further details, such as the content of the ruling or the sentence, so they are not included here.
