内罗毕，10月19日 - 肯尼亚警方在三年多前发现与福音传道者保罗·麦肯齐领导的饥饿邪教有关的集体墓穴后，该传道人因导致190名儿童和一名成人死亡而被判处谋杀罪。
NAIROBI, Oct 19 - More than three years after Kenyan police unearthed mass graves linked to a starvation cult led by evangelist Paul Mackenzie, the preacher was convicted of murder for the deaths of 190 children and one adult.
自2023年4月警方在印度洋城镇马林迪附近的森林中发现人类遗骸以来，麦肯齐的案件一直牵动着东非国家的神经，此次发现引发了一项调查，最终挖掘出超过400具尸体，其中近半数为儿童。
Mackenzie's case has gripped the East African nation since officers found human remains in a forest near the Indian Ocean town of Malindi in April 2023, kicking off an investigation that would eventually unearth over 400 bodies, nearly half of them children.
这名前出租车司机于2003年创立了好消息国际教会，他越来越多地宣扬末日论，并鼓励信徒让自己和孩子饿死，以便在世界末日前上天堂。
The former taxi driver founded the Good News International Church in 2003, preaching increasingly apocalyptic sermons and urging his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so they could go to heaven before the world ended.
在2023年3月的一段YouTube视频中，麦肯齐——他当时在线下和线上拥有数千名追随者——表示，他在宣扬当年世界将结束的信息时，是受到“基督之声”的引导。“我遵循了那个告诉我说我已经完成工作的声音，”他说。
In a March 2023 YouTube video, Mackenzie — who had thousands of followers in person and online — said that he was guided by "the voice of Christ" when he preached messages about the world coming to an end that year. "I followed the voice that told me I had finished the work," he said.
总统曾表示这些死亡本可以被避免 传道人的视频显示，他穿着朴素的衣服，镇定地向数百人讲述自己作为驱魔师的经历以及战胜“恶魔”灵魂的胜利。
PRESIDENT HAS SAID DEATHS SHOULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED Videos of the preacher show him dressed in nondescript clothing, speaking calmly to hundreds of people as he recounted his experiences as an exorcist and his victory over "demonic" spirits.
麦肯齐在一起案件中否认了谋杀、过失杀人、儿童虐待和恐怖主义的指控，该案件凸显了肯尼亚当局的失职以及在以基督教为主的国家中对教会缺乏监管的问题。
Mackenzie denied charges of murder, manslaughter, child torture and terrorism in a case that highlighted the failings of Kenyan authorities and the lack of oversight governing churches in the predominantly Christian country.
肯尼亚国家人权委员会（KNCHR）是一个独立机构，其表示麦肯齐早在2017年就本可以被首次逮捕并被指控激进化，但此后他仍能继续运营多年。
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, an independent body, said it was deplorable that Mackenzie could have been first arrested in 2017 and charged with radicalisation but continued to operate for years.
“这表明调查和起诉程序存在失误。逮捕本应触发能够挽救数人生命的调查，”KNCHR在其2024年的报告中说道。
"This points to a failure in the investigation and prosecution processes. The arrest should have triggered investigations that would have saved the lives of several people," the KNCHR said in a 2024 report.
肯尼亚总统威廉·鲁托表示，政府机构本应能够防止这些死亡事件的发生，并补充说，作为总统，他承担了责任。
Kenyan President William Ruto has said that government agencies should have been able to prevent the deaths, adding that he took responsibility as president.
数十名儿童在庄园中被发现仍在生活 马肯齐在肯尼亚东南部的农村县夸莱长大，并于20世纪90年代初搬到马林迪，在那里担任出租车司机。
DOZENS OF CHILDREN FOUND LIVING IN COMPOUND Mackenzie grew up in Kwale, a rural county in southeast Kenya, and moved to Malindi in the early 1990s to work as a taxi driver.
在那里，他越来越专注于宗教。与他一起担任司机的雅弗斯·查罗在2023年对路透社表示。
There, he became increasingly focused on religion, Japheth Charo, who worked as a driver alongside him, told Reuters in 2023.
“他开始攻击其他信仰，如穆斯林和天主教徒。他的布道开始变得极端，”查罗说，他的家人曾加入马肯齐的教会，但在他的布道开始让他们感到惊恐后离开了。
"He started attacking other faiths like Muslims and Catholics. His preaching started becoming extreme," said Charo, whose family had joined Mackenzie's church but left after his sermons started to alarm them.
2012年，马肯齐注册了一家名为“好新闻媒体”的电视公司，并在一个拥有7000名订阅者的YouTube频道上播放布道，肯尼亚国家人权委员会在一份关于此案的报告中写道。
In 2012, Mackenzie registered a TV company called Good News Media and he broadcast sermons on a YouTube channel that had 7,000 subscribers, KNCHR wrote in a report on the case.
2017年，警方搜查了马肯齐在马林迪的庄园，发现数十名儿童在那里生活，却未上学。他因在未注册的设施中提供教育而被起诉，但一直持续他的教导直至2019年，当时他的教会被关闭，他搬到了沙卡霍拉森林。
Police searched Mackenzie's Malindi compound in 2017 and found dozens of children living there without attending school. He was charged with offering education at an unregistered facility but continued his teachings until 2019, when his church was shut down and he relocated to the Shakahola Forest.
人们被承诺的廉价可耕地所吸引前往那里，但发现了武装民兵，这些民兵强迫信徒禁食，最终导致他们的死亡，肯尼亚国家人权委员会发现。那些违抗禁食命令或试图逃跑的人被勒死或打死，报告补充道。
People were lured there by the promise of affordable arable land but found armed militia who enforced the fasting and eventual deaths of followers, KNCHR found. Those who defied orders to fast or tried to escape were strangled or clubbed to death, it added.
在世界末日前自我饿死 马肯齐被认为大约50岁出头，是一个专断的人物，他迫使追随者与社会隔绝，禁止他们参与学校或医院，他将这些机构称为撒旦的，受害者的亲属表示。
STARVE THEMSELVES BEFORE THE WORLD'S END Mackenzie, believed to be in his early 50s, is a domineering figure who forced his followers to cut themselves off from society, forbidding them from engaging with schools or hospitals, institutions he branded as satanic, relatives of victims said.
“他告诉他们在4月15日世界末日之前饿死自己，说他将是最后一个人，并且他会锁上门，”斯蒂芬·姆维蒂在2023年对路透社表示，他的妻子和六个孩子是遇难者之一。
"He told them to starve themselves ahead of the world's end on April 15, saying he would be the last one and that he would lock the doors," Stephen Mwiti, whose wife and six children were among the fatalities, told Reuters in 2023.
麦肯齐对其追随者的控制在沙卡霍拉墓穴被曝光后仍未减弱。检方指控他与去年在距沙卡霍拉约30公里（18英里）的克瓦宾扎罗村挖掘出的52具尸体有关的死亡案件有牵连。
Mackenzie's grip on his followers continued even after the graves in Shakahola were exposed. Prosecutors charged him in connection with the deaths of 52 other people after bodies were exhumed last year in Kwa Binzaro village, some 30 km (18 miles) from Shakahola.
他们称，麦肯齐在被拘留期间策划并监督了克瓦宾扎罗的犯罪行为，利用激进教义吸引受害者前往该偏远地区。麦肯齐在该案中已认罪不成立。
They said he masterminded and oversaw the offences at Kwa Binzaro while in detention, using radical teachings to draw victims to the remote site. Mackenzie has pleaded not guilty in that case.