Today, i watched a very sad movie; i rarely weep, but today i did. I went to Kenya for a visit, and i came across old videos from the National Archives showing how the British government used systematic torture on our citizens in the name of civilizing the Africans.
Some of the highly used techniques included drilling of the male genitalia with screws, castration, throwing paraffin and setting them on fire, raping women, drilling nails through the ear drums, inserting broom sticks in the anus, nail pulling, eye gouging and literally opening of the skulls!. In fact, Other brutalities included slicing off ears, boring holes in eardrums, flogging people to death, and burning eardrums with cigarettes. A mobile gallows traveled the country. Over 1,000 were hanged, their bodies displayed at crossroads and market places.
forty years later, under the leadership of Kibaki and Odinga, the mayhem is all the same, only the characters have changed. The people who fought for our land, had their eardrums drilled, inserted broom sticks in their anus are dying with no land, no food and no shelter. The children of former home guards are the same people who are raping our country, not their fathers. For the young the home guard kids include Nyachae, Njiris, Njonjos, Waruhius njirus, nyagas just to mention a few. May we learn from history.
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