Doomsday cult: Exhumations ordered after hundreds of members were found dead
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NAIROBI - A Kenyan court has ordered the exhumation of bodies suspected to belong to people who were starved and suffocated in the same county where hundreds of members of a doomsday cult were found dead two years ago, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The bodies in the new case are believed to be buried in shallow graves on the outskirts of Malindi in southeastern Kenya’s Kilifi County, and 11 suspects are being investigated, Kenya’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said on X.
“Investigators suspect multiple individuals were murdered through starvation and suffocation,” it said.
“The victims may have been starved and suffocated as a result of adopting and promoting extreme religious ideologies.”
More than 400 bodies were exhumed from the nearby Shakahola Forest in 2023 in one of the world’s worst cult-related disasters in recent history.
In that case, prosecutors have alleged that cult leader Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended.
Mackenzie, who faces charges of murder and terrorism, denies the accusations against him.
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NAIROBI - A Kenyan court has ordered the exhumation of bodies suspected to belong to people who were starved and suffocated in the same county where hundreds of members of a doomsday cult were found dead two years ago, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The bodies in the new case are believed to be buried in shallow graves on the outskirts of Malindi in southeastern Kenya’s Kilifi County, and 11 suspects are being investigated, Kenya’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said on X.
“Investigators suspect multiple individuals were murdered through starvation and suffocation,” it said.
“The victims may have been starved and suffocated as a result of adopting and promoting extreme religious ideologies.”
More than 400 bodies were exhumed from the nearby Shakahola Forest in 2023 in one of the world’s worst cult-related disasters in recent history.
In that case, prosecutors have alleged that cult leader Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended.
Mackenzie, who faces charges of murder and terrorism, denies the accusations against him.
Just zero info on what they believed... Which makes the article too low information to be interesting/useful/good.
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Just zero info on what they believed... Which makes the article too low information to be interesting/useful/good.
cult leader Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended
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NAIROBI - A Kenyan court has ordered the exhumation of bodies suspected to belong to people who were starved and suffocated in the same county where hundreds of members of a doomsday cult were found dead two years ago, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The bodies in the new case are believed to be buried in shallow graves on the outskirts of Malindi in southeastern Kenya’s Kilifi County, and 11 suspects are being investigated, Kenya’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said on X.
“Investigators suspect multiple individuals were murdered through starvation and suffocation,” it said.
“The victims may have been starved and suffocated as a result of adopting and promoting extreme religious ideologies.”
More than 400 bodies were exhumed from the nearby Shakahola Forest in 2023 in one of the world’s worst cult-related disasters in recent history.
In that case, prosecutors have alleged that cult leader Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended.
Mackenzie, who faces charges of murder and terrorism, denies the accusations against him.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Holy shit and the leader didn’t do it himself / is still alive
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NAIROBI - A Kenyan court has ordered the exhumation of bodies suspected to belong to people who were starved and suffocated in the same county where hundreds of members of a doomsday cult were found dead two years ago, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The bodies in the new case are believed to be buried in shallow graves on the outskirts of Malindi in southeastern Kenya’s Kilifi County, and 11 suspects are being investigated, Kenya’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said on X.
“Investigators suspect multiple individuals were murdered through starvation and suffocation,” it said.
“The victims may have been starved and suffocated as a result of adopting and promoting extreme religious ideologies.”
More than 400 bodies were exhumed from the nearby Shakahola Forest in 2023 in one of the world’s worst cult-related disasters in recent history.
In that case, prosecutors have alleged that cult leader Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended.
Mackenzie, who faces charges of murder and terrorism, denies the accusations against him.
I'm so sorry for other Paul's with that same exact last name who may or may not live elsewhere in the world. And also very sorry for all these people. We need an end to religious stupidity.