What drove Kenyan cult members to starve themselves?
Podcast |
Africa Daily
Publisher |
BBC
Media Type |
audio
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Africa
News & Politics
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News
Publication Date |
Apr 27, 2023
Episode Duration |
00:18:22

In a remote and hidden area in the Shakahola forest near the Kenyan coast, a grisly and distressing operation is taking place: around 60 mass graves are gradually being dug up and the bodies they contain exhumed. The authorities were called in after it was reported that members of a cult had been persuaded to starve themselves to death as a way to be accepted into heaven. So far 89 bodies have been exhumed – but the Red Cross has said that 112 people have been reported missing. When police arrived they also found 29 sick and weak survivors - but many continued to refuse food. The leader of the church - Pastor Paul Mackenzie - has been arrested. For Africa Daily, Alan Kasujja hears about this case from the human rights worker who first alerted the police – and also asks why people get lured into religious cults in the first place? GUESTS: Hussein Khalid from HAKI Africa and Dr Kennedy Ongaro of Daystar University in Nairobi.

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