肯尼亚邪教头目因谋杀大量信徒被判处200年监禁 保罗·恩滕格·马肯齐强迫追随者把自己饿死以去见耶稣，并告诉父母要确保孩子们在烈日下禁食并先死去。
Cult Leader in Kenya Sentenced to 200 Years in Prison for Mass Murder Paul Nthenge Mackenzie forced followers to starve themselves to meet Jesus and told parents to make sure their children fasted in the sun and died first.
肯尼亚一家法院于周五对一名邪教头目判处200年监禁，此前他在上个月被判定谋杀190名儿童及1名成人，这些受害者被强迫绝食身亡以去见耶稣。
A Kenyan court on Friday sentenced a cult leader to 200 years in prison after he was convicted last month of murdering 190 children and an adult who were forced to starve themselves to death to meet Jesus.
在肯尼亚港口城市蒙巴萨进行的庭审中，法庭获悉，该邪教头目保罗·恩滕格·马肯齐曾命令追随者停止进食，其助手则用暴力强制执行了这一清规。
The cult leader, Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, had ordered his followers to cease eating, and aides had violently enforced the edict, a court in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa heard during the trial.
尽管马肯齐被判处的刑期最长，但另有28人也因在这起大屠杀中所起的作用而被定罪。死去的儿童大多在10岁以下。
While Mr. Mackenzie received the longest sentence, 28 other people were also convicted for their roles in the massacre. Most of the children who died were under 10 years old.
马肯齐曾是一名出租车司机和小型电视布道者，他于2023年被捕。此前，肯尼亚当局在位于肯尼亚东南部印度洋附近偏远地区的沙卡霍拉森林中，掘出了400多具在过去两年中死亡的人的遗体。
Mr. Mackenzie, a former taxi driver and small-time televangelist, was arrested in 2023 after the Kenyan authorities exhumed the bodies of more than 400 people who died in the preceding two years in the Shakahola Forest, a remote area of southeastern Kenya near the Indian Ocean.
检察官曾要求法庭判处马肯齐死刑，但主审法官黛安娜·卡韦扎-莫查切（Diana Kavedza-Mochache）拒绝了这一请求。
Prosecutors had asked the court to sentence Mr. Mackenzie to death, but the judge, Lady Justice Diana Kavedza-Mochache, declined the request.
“对于将死亡视为解脱的人来说，死刑或许不会被视为惩罚，而会被视为一种胜利和殉道的形式，”她说。法官指出，马肯齐对受害者没有表现出丝毫的悔意或同情。
“For persons who perceive death as deliverance, a death sentence may be perceived not as punishment, but as a triumph and a form of martyrdom,” she said. The judge noted that Mr. Mackenzie had shown no remorse or empathy for his victims.
马肯齐宣扬的大约从2019年持续到2023年在沙卡霍拉活动邪教，被其包装成了一个避难所，追随者可以在那里躲避他所宣称正迅速逼近的世界末日。
Mr. Mackenzie promoted his cult, which operated in Shakahola from about 2019 to 2023, as a sanctuary where followers could find refuge from the apocalypse, which he preached was fast approaching.
在麦肯齐之前被定罪的人中，还包括强迫子女禁食的父母，他们被判处10年至160年不等的刑期。一名邪教前成员在此前接受《纽约时报》采访时说，麦肯齐曾布道称，父母应确保孩子先在阳光下禁食并死去，这样他们就能比成年家庭成员先升入天堂。
Parents who forced their children to fast were among those convicted alongside Mr. Mackenzie, and they received sentences of 10 to 160 years. Mr. Mackenzie had preached that the parents should make sure their children fasted in the sun and died first so that they reached heaven before adult family members, one former member of the cult told The New York Times in an earlier interview.
这起在肯尼亚被称为“沙卡霍拉大屠杀”的事件，只是世界各地众多案例之一：一些具有魅力的邪教领袖扭曲宗教教义以控制追随者，有时造成致命后果。一个臭名昭著的例子是1978年的吉姆·琼斯案，这名邪教领袖命令追随者在南美洲圭亚那一个偏远定居点自杀，导致至少900人死亡。
The Shakahola Massacre, as it is known in Kenya, is one of many instances around the world of charismatic cult leaders who twist religious teachings to gain sway over their followers, sometimes to lethal effect. A notorious example was the 1978 case of Jim Jones, a cult leader who ordered his followers to take their own lives at a remote settlement in Guyana, in South America, leading to at least 900 deaths.
2000年，在乌干达的卡农古村，一个名为“恢复上帝十诫运动”的末日邪教的追随者被发现死亡，其中一些人被焚尸。那场屠杀的死亡人数为780人。
In 2000, in the village of Kanungu in Uganda, followers of a doomsday cult called the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God were found dead, some incinerated. The toll in that massacre was 780 victims.