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Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie convicted of murdering 190 children

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A Kenyan court on Monday convicted Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, leader of a Christian doomsday cult, of murdering 190 children, many by starvation. Mackenzie had told followers in a remote forest to fast for salvation. He faced 191 murder charges in total after hundreds of bodies were exhumed.

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