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Graves with at least 21 bodies found on land of sect leader in Kenya

  • April 23, 2023
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At least 21 bodies were found Kenyan police buried in common pits inside some land owned by Kenyan leader Paul Mackenzie Ntenge, self-proclaimed leader kilifi cult, Right now

Graves with at least 21 bodies found on land of sect leader in Kenya

At least 21 bodies were found Kenyan police buried in common pits inside some land owned by Kenyan leader Paul Mackenzie Ntenge, self-proclaimed leader kilifi cult, Right now in jail on suspicion of forcing his followers to starve to death.

Investigators have found at least 32 mass graves at the Mackenzie estate in the coastal city of Malindi, of which at least twenty have yet to be excavated.

Matthew Shypeta of Khaki Africa, a human rights group, said he saw at least 15 shallow graves in the forest.

“Today we will limit ourselves to identifying shallow graves while we wait for instructions from the state pathologist, who will give permission for the exhumation of the bodies.”

Helen Micali, director of the orphanage, who also assisted investigators, said she visited several nearby towns where parents and children had disappeared.

Two children died of starvation

Mackenzie, head of the so-called Good News Church International, turned himself in to police for the first time since two children starved to death in front of parents, members of the sect.

After being released on bail, he was arrested again on 15 April and right now he is on a hunger strike to protest his treatment, according to the Kenyan newspaper The Nation.

Another 11 members of the sect or their children are hospitalized in serious condition, three of them in critical condition after they were found languishing in the forest at the beginning of the mass graves investigation. (Europe Press and Reuters)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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