A Kenyan court has charged a doomsday cult leader with mass murder
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Prosecutors say Paul Mackenzie urged his followers to starve to death to enter heaven. Mackenzie and suspected accomplices pleaded not guilty in court. Also: There have been protests in Turkey on the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake, and Spanish farmers join the Europe-wide protests in anger at high costs and other challenges to agriculture.
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| 0:29.7 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is recorded at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 6th of February. |
| 0:34.6 | The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya is charged with mass murder, accused of persuading |
| 0:39.4 | his followers to starve themselves to death. |
| 0:42.2 | A year on from the devastating earthquake in Turkey there are protests |
| 0:45.6 | over the slow pace of reconstruction and Spanish farmers join the Europe-wide protests. |
| 0:56.8 | Also in the podcast the British Prime Minister gives us an update on King Charles's cancer diagnosis. |
| 0:59.2 | Thankfully this has been caught early and now everyone will be wishing him that he gets |
| 1:03.4 | well if it gets the treatment that he needs and makes a full recovery. |
| 1:07.6 | And why Maury protesters are angry with the government in New Zealand. |
| 1:15.0 | In April last year a grisly story emerged from the Shakahala Forest in eastern Kenya |
| 1:21.0 | as police began investigating a remote cult led by the self-styled |
| 1:25.5 | pastor Paul Mackenzie. They found dozens of shallow graves and people who were starving. |
| 1:31.7 | Eventually they recovered |
| 1:32.8 | 427 bodies. Autopsies revealed that most of the victims had died of hunger. |
| 1:38.6 | Today Mr. Mackenzie and 29 suspected associates have gone on trial charged with nearly 200 murders. |
| 1:46.0 | Prosecutors say he ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death, |
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