# Kenyan cult leader found guilty of 191 murders after telling parents to starve children

https://mins.news/en/video/106633

- BBC News, 2026-10-19 17:00 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_21PWaF4Ss

> Kenyan doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie was found guilty of murdering 191 people, all but one of them children. He ordered followers to starve their children so they could “meet Jesus.” Twenty-nine other cult leaders were also convicted; all had pleaded not guilty and repeatedly said nobody was forced to die.

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