In Africa Speaks 4 Africa:
Judy Kibinge’s Documentary on ‘the Anatomy of a Massacre’ in Wajir.
On February 10th 1984, “hundreds –possibly thousands– of Somali’s were rounded, tortured, while some were killed in an airstrip in Wajir (the capital of Wajir county of Kenya, situated in the former North Eastern Province). With no food or water in the scorching February sun, the men were continuously beaten and tortured, with some executed by the Kenyan army,” according to an Aljazeera report.
“What started as an operation in 1984 to disarm members of the ethnic Somali Degodia clan morphed into what the United Nations termed ‘as one of the worst violations of human rights in the history of Kenya’. During the large-scale military operation, the Kenyan army carried out systematic attacks, according to witnesses. The army raped women, burned houses, arrested and tortured men, and later on, forced them to lie bare on the ground for days. The heinous violations were of substantial proportions, and victims narrated stories of thirst, starvation and abuse that much of Kenya hasn’t come to terms with in the three decades since”, states an article in Sahan Journal...[continue reading]