Shakahola: The massacre the State was warned about — and the officials who have yet to answer
Paul Mackenzie and his accomplices have been sentenced for one of Kenya’s worst mass atrocities. But the 200-year prison sentence handed to the cult leader exposes a much bigger question: How did hundreds of people die, in a forest within the reach of the Kenyan security apparatus, despite years of warnings? The killers have been convicted. The institutions that failed to stop them remain largely unaccountable.