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"content": "43 Thursday, 8th April, 2010(P) want to ask him, âMr. Chairman, were you part of that scheme?â He will have an opportunity to tell us; âNOâ, which he has already said. We will then say that this is what happened on this day. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Wagalla massacre, Garissa in 1980 and Mandera in fact go outside the Bill itself. It is only the security system that uses the spirit of the Bill. The spirit says, collective punishment or punishment irrespective of whether somebody is innocent or guilty of any offence. This is what has subsequently been used over the years. Therefore, we want to give those Kenyans an opportunity to appear before the Commission and say, in 1980, 1964, 1984, 1990 and all the years, these are the things that happened which go against the spirit of our Constitution, which protects the right to life of every Kenyan in this country. After that we want the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) to document those facts. In fact, one of the reasons we want to appear before the TJRC or we want to ask those victims to appear before the TJRC is for the country to know exactly what happened. As leaders, many of us might not even know exactly what happened. If the TJRC is given an opportunity, the first thing is that we will get a historical documentation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, our people are forgiving. No Kenyan in his right sense wants to keep bitterness. People want to move on but there must be an opportunity to close the chapter and then move forward. The country will be richer if it knows its history. We are going through a new Constitutional dispensation which will give us an opportunity to throw out all the laws that we have now and completely replace them with a new set of Constitution. The other thing that should be done is for the Government to determine the following. If this is what happened, how can we close the chapter by way of compensation? There are those whose livelihoods have been affected by the security forces action. Can you imagine a camel herder or a normal pastoralist who, in 1960, lost everything he had through air raids by security forces in search of insurgents? The ordinary person lost everything. Today, they are poor not because they wish to be poor but because of actions of the Government. There are those men whose private parts were mutilated and they cannot give birth. These men are still alive. How can they forgive the Kenyan security forces? They were innocent because they had not committed any crime but that is what happened to them. They have no possibility of getting offspring because the security forces interfered with their private parts through harassment and torture. How can they forgive the security forces and say they belong to a country called Kenya? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want these people to appear before the Commission, say their bit of the story, we document it as a country, we compensate where due, we ask them to forgive, we ask those officers who are alive and were allowed to do anything they wanted to do because the law protected them--- How in your wisdom do you rape a pastoralist girl because the law is for public safety and security? Those who were raped are there. In fact, I was not born at that time but we have been told stories about young girls who were raped by security forces in the bush and the offspring do not resemble the other children in the family. It is very clear from the mixing of blood that the young men or young ladies are not from that locality. They were born as a result of security forces getting access to what they should have not gotten access to in the first place. This is the truth about Kenya. The country called âKenyaâ is rich. Let us not destroy it. I happen to have been an ambassador, and I am glad I worked with the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs briefly as Kenyaâs ambassador to Somalia. In that country people speak the same language and practice the same culture and religion but the politicians were so reckless. They could not forgive each other and allow the state to continue. They wrecked it and"
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