Kenyan cult chief Paul Mackenzie and 29 associates have been charged on Tuesday with the homicide of 191 kids whose our bodies have been discovered amongst greater than double that quantity buried in a forest.
The defendants all denied the fees introduced earlier than a courtroom within the coastal city of Malindi. One suspect was discovered mentally unfit to face trial.
Prosecutors say Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their kids to demise in order that they may go to heaven earlier than the world ended. Greater than 400 our bodies have been exhumed from the Shakahola forest.
Mackenzie was arrested final April after the our bodies started to be found. He has already been charged with terrorism-related crimes, manslaughter and torture.
There have been totally different costs introduced earlier than totally different courts in reference to the killings.