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"content": " Thank you for the correction. The long rains are coming. What will be the consequences? Already, we have seen the tents that those people are living in. Will they be able, really, to accommodate them and resist those rains? What shall we do to make sure that at least, there are some permanent buildings that can take care of those families? What are we doing to make sure that as a result of the long rains, we shall not have communicable diseases such as typhoid, cholera and malaria? How are we going to cope with those diseases in the IDP camps? Those questions must be addressed. We would like Kenyans to also enjoy the benefits of the Accord and the peace from the two Bills that we are going to enact today. March 18, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 217 Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of the Constitution should be addressed, so that we can address the questions of land, inequality and marginalisation. The issue of marginalisation should be looked at both ways. It does not mean that if your people are the majority they cannot be marginalised, or if they are a minority they are the only people who can be marginalised. Marginalisation can come in two ways. Let us look at the issue of the Constitution, so that at the end of the day, it will be able to address the questions of the constituencies, the security of this country and ensure that we shall no longer again violate our Constitution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, after the apartheid era in South Africa and the independence of that country, it required a truth and reconciliation commission. That did not stop the likes of Mrs. Winnie Mandela, much as she had supported the fight and struggle against apartheid, from appearing in court and answering for her misdeeds. This did not stop the South African Government, knowing that she was the wife of former President Nelson Mandela, from taking her to court to answer charges for the wrongs she had committed, crimes against humanity, yet she had fought for the liberation of South Africa. After the Second World War, the Americans are still responsible for what happened in Hiroshima. We must be responsible for our actions. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, reconciliation should make us come to terms with reality. We, as a House, must make sure that we vote money through the forthcoming Budget, so that we can erect a monument of shame. There is no way we can pretend in this House that we shall forget the cries of those children who were burnt at Kiambaa Village, in Eldoret, and in Naivasha. We must vote money in this House to erect a monument of shame, so that in our lifetime we can remember what really happened in this country. We cannot just sit here and pass very good laws. We can decorate them whichever way, but we must remember the deep feelings of those who suffered."
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