Kenya doomsday cult leader and 30 others face charges...
Paul Mackenzie and his followers have been blamed for the deaths of 429 members of his Good News International Church.
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Paul Mackenzie and his followers have been blamed for the deaths of 429 members of his Good News International Church.
Authorities say Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death, to go to heaven.
They will on January 23 face 238 counts of manslaughter.
A Kenyan judge on Wednesday ordered cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 30 associates to undergo mental health evaluations before being charged with the murder of 191 children whose bodies have been exhumed since last April from the Shakahola forest.
The authorities say Paul Nthenge Mackenzie told his followers to starve themselves and their children to death in the Shakahola Forest, where hundreds of bodies have been exhumed.