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Tales from the Graveyard: The 'holy land' where Paul Mackenzie's followers starved to death

The unbearable stench of mass graves in Shakahola hits one when you visit the isolated forest is about 70 kilometers in the remote part of Malindi.

In the middle of the forest, piles of fresh earth marked by crucifixes await the attention of forensic experts -since the exercise began at least 95 bodies had by Wednesday been exhumed with forensic experts estimating that the exercise could take more days. They estimate those who starved to death could surpass 500 considering that it's only one site that had been dug as of Wednesday.

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