末日邪教领袖保罗·麦肯齐、他的妻子罗达·马韦乌以及另外29名共同被告，被判犯有谋杀190名儿童和一名成年人的罪行。
Doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie, his wife Rhoda Maweu, and 29 other co-accused have been found guilty of the murder of 190 children and one adult.
法官戴安娜·莫查切于周一在蒙巴萨法院宣判——这是近代史上最严重的邪教相关灾难之一。
Justice Diana Mochache handed down the judgment at the Mombasa Law Courts on Monday - in one of the world's worst cult-related disasters in recent history.
在漫长的一天和她1000页的判决书结束时，她要求每名被告站起来念出自己的名字，并补充道：“191项谋杀罪名全部成立。”
At the end of a long day and her 1,000-page judgement, she asked each of the accused to stand and read out their name, adding, "convicted on all 191 counts of murder".
她认定，麦肯齐的“好消息国际教会”（GNI）的追随者们在搬到沙卡霍拉森林之前，早已失去独立性。自2023年以来，当局在那里的浅坟中发现了数百具尸体。该教会在肯尼亚各地设有分支机构，并从全国各地招募追随者。“当他们搬到沙卡霍拉时，许多人已经失去了自我意识，”她说。
She found that followers of Mackenzie's Good News International Church (GNI) had been stripped of their independence long before they moved to the Shakahola Forest, where since 2023 authorities found hundreds of bodies in shallow graves. The church had branches across Kenya and recruited followers from all over the country. "By the time they were relocating to Shakahola, many of them had lost their sense of self," she said.
“他们的自我信任已被侵蚀，大多数人感到无助，完全依赖于他的每一个念头和指令。受害者失去了个人边界。他们没有咨询麦肯齐就什么都做不了。”定罪后，邪教领袖的儿子丹·麦肯齐表示，他很高兴正义得以实现。
"Their self-trust had been eroded and most of them felt helpless and dependent on his every whim and directive. The victims had lost their personal boundaries. They could do nothing without consulting Mackenzie." Following the conviction, Dan Mackenzie, the cult leader's son, said he was relieved that justice had been achieved.
法官表示，追随者对他产生了如此深厚的情感依赖，以至于当他禁止他们给孩子接种疫苗，并要求他们放弃正式工作或任何其他就业时，“他们毫不质疑地服从”。
The judge said followers had become so emotionally dependent on him that when he banned them from vaccinating their children and demanded that they give up formal or any other employment, "they obeyed without question".
她还认定，儿童无法同意绝食致死，因为他们缺乏做出知情决定的法律能力。许多儿童年龄在6至10岁之间，最小的只有几个月大。莫查切法官拒绝了搬到森林仅仅是麦肯齐说服力的结果这一观点。
She also found that the children could not consent to fasting to death, as they lacked the legal capacity to make an informed decision. Many of the children were aged between six and 10, with the youngest just a few months old. Justice Mochache rejected the idea that the move to the forest was simply the result of Mackenzie's powers of persuasion.
“搬到沙卡霍拉森林，因此不仅是受他口才和说服力的启发，更是出于他充分的参与和监督，”她说。
"The relocation to Shakahola Forest was therefore not just inspired by his eloquence and power of persuasion, but by his full participation and supervision," she said.
她发现，麦肯齐及其副牧师的教导使信徒接受了一种极端信仰体系，该体系拒绝所有政府政策并侵犯基本人权。这最终导致429人死亡，其中191人是法庭指控的对象。
She found that the teachings of Mackenzie and his associate pastors led followers to adopt an extreme belief system that rejected all government policies and violated basic human rights. It ultimately led to the deaths of 429 people, of whom 191 were the subject of the charges before the court.
检方认为，麦肯齐命令他的信徒让自己和孩子饿死，以便在世界末日之前上天堂，“见到耶稣”。
Prosecutors argued that Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so they could go to heaven before the end of the world and "meet Jesus".
他们说，他在沙卡霍拉森林的800英亩牧场“发起并指导”了极端禁食。
They said he "initiated and directed" extreme fasting at his 800-acre ranch in the Shakahola Forest.
在“结构化的死亡等级”中，儿童应首先死亡，随后是青少年、妇女，然后是男性。
There was a "structured hierarchy of death" under which children should die first, followed by teenagers, women, and then men.
检方称，儿童大多死于饥饿，但也有因“窒息、颈部压迫和创伤性头部损伤”而亡。更多来自天空新闻：欧洲各地抗议蔓延 澳大利亚议员被撞后批评 所有31名被告曾否认指控，但全部被判谋杀罪成立。他们的刑罚将于11月宣判。
The children mostly died from starvation, but also from "asphyxia, neck compression and traumatic head injury", prosecutors said. More from Sky News: Protests spreading across Europe Australian MP critical after being hit by car All 31 defendants had denied the charges, but all were found guilty of murder. Their sentence will be handed down in November.
前出租车司机麦肯齐于2023年4月被捕，此前有人权组织向当局举报，部分信徒被救出。警方行动暴露出数百个浅层集体墓穴。
Former taxi driver Mackenzie was arrested in April 2023, after a rights group tipped off authorities and some followers were rescued. The police operation exposed hundreds of shallow mass graves.
还发现了102种不同的身体部位，尸体埋葬在不到一英尺深的墓穴中。尸体数量之多，以至于当地停尸房空间不足，不得不暂停掘墓。
A total of 102 different body parts were also found, with the bodies buried in graves less than a foot deep. There were so many bodies that local morgues ran out of space and exhumations had to be paused.
肯尼亚人权委员会在2024年表示，官方死亡人数为429人。许多人尸体严重腐烂，只有26具尸体能够被识别。
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights said in 2024 that the official death toll was 429. Many were severely decomposed, with only 26 bodies able to be identified.
上个月，肯尼亚政府指示沙卡霍拉受害者家属，要么领回亲人遗体，要么将其安葬在集体墓穴中。
Last month the Kenyan government directed the families of the Shakahola victims to either pick up the bodies of their loved ones or have them buried in mass graves.
弗朗西斯·万杰（Francis Wanje），62岁，他的八名家庭成员（包括两名孙辈）死于这个邪教组织。在宣判前，他表示：“这对我们全家来说是一段极其痛苦的经历，也给我们带来了严重的心理问题。”麦肯齐（Mackenzie）还面临着与恐怖主义相关的犯罪指控、过失杀人罪以及酷刑罪的指控。今年1月，他又被指控在附近的一个村庄杀害了另外52人；他对这起案件也表示不认罪。
Francis Wanje, 62, who lost eight family members including two grandchildren to the cult, said before the verdict: "It has been really a heavy thing for us as a family, and it has really taken us very far in terms of psychological problems." Mackenzie also faces charges of terrorism-related crimes, manslaughter and torture. In January this year, he was further charged with the murder of another 52 people found dead at a nearby village. He also pleaded not guilty in that case.
在发现麦肯齐过去曾两次被捕但最终都被释放后，肯尼亚国内出现了要求加强对宗教组织监管的呼声。肯尼亚总统威廉·鲁托（William Ruto）在2023年表示，政府相关部门本应能够阻止这些悲剧的发生，并表示自己作为国家领导人对此负有责任。
There have been calls in Kenya for tougher regulations on religious organisations after it emerged that Mackenzie had been arrested twice in the past but released. Kenyan President William Ruto said in 2023 that government agencies should have been able to prevent the deaths and that he took responsibility as leader.