Skip to main content

Lest We Forget........


A weeping widow of wagalla

“Grave Violations of Human Rights never die completely; that much is certain. The unanswered questions and the sadness they engender live on in minds of those who experienced them. They remain like a phantom pain in the body of those who come later, their children and their grand children. There is no endless variety of ways of dealing with the demons from the past. What happened is forgiven or punished, brushed under the carpet or carefully stored in the memory, suppressed or openly challenged”.

            - All Things Pass, Except the Past by LUC HUYSE.

Indeed, the Wagalla massacre, the Nyayo Era (error) torture cases, and most recently, the 2007/2008 post election violence all sad moments in our country’s history, and the politicians’ concerted efforts to down play the seriousness of these events and the likelihood of a reoccurrence, the reckless utterances and dirty political jostling played by them - a ‘conspiracy of silence’ among this ruling elite, is a cause for alarm for all Kenyans. It is therefore commendable when a few politicians stand up for what is right as has been done HERE.

Vigilance is imperative in this continous battle for democracy and good governance.                                                                                                                                                     

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Integrity and Moral Probity…..hmmmmh?!?!?

As vetting approaches and the potentially high number of judicial officers likely to face the ‘phase 2’ purge… lawyers are falling over each other trying to polish their résumés in the hope of filling up the already empty slots as well as the soon to be vacancies. Hence begs the questions, are these legal practitioners (even with their impressive résumés) going to qualify for these positions? Are they really going to prove that they are persons of integrity? Are we likely to get a fresh deluge of ‘wikileakes’ discrediting their claims as persons of integrity? I have no doubt that many in my profession are persons who conduct their businesses either in private practice, public service or civil society with the highest level of integrity…..but then how many???    As I read the Article is The Standard on confessions of how a lawyer helps pirates ‘clean’ their money….I was left asking my self thought provoking questions as to how many lawyers today would pass the Constitution’s Chapt
3 comments
Read more

Constitutional CRISIS?!?!?!?!

Even as MPs animatedly bang tables at press conferences and heckle in public (some sadly in their mother tongues [ mzalendo where are you?!? ]) about the illegality of the speaker’s ruling and decision to reject debate on the controversial nominations of the Chief Justice, Attorney General, DPP and Director of Budget, claiming that a rejection of the names will lead to a constitutional crisis come 27 th February, it would be very important, at the earliest to clarify exactly what this constitutional crisis would mean – as opposed to what they want their not so ignorant constituents to believe it to mean. Fiction: The judiciary will be left in a mess-vacuum – headless as it were, if there is no Chief Justice after 27 th February. Fact: The office of the Chief Justice though an important one is mainly administrative and ceremonial (or so it has been made under Gicheru). The Court of Appeal’s Presiding Judge is perfectly capable of overseeing the transition in an acting capacity.
3 comments
Read more

THE “HOUSE OF TERROR” – Reflections….

The "House of Terror" - Budapest, 1062 Andrassy ut 60 So today I finally got to visit the ‘House of Terror’ one of those places you certainly ought to visit if you ever pass by Budapest, Hungary! It is described as a museum that commemorates the victims of terror as well as a reminder of the dreadful acts of terror carried out by ‘victimizers’. The building, and the museum inside are a vivid, impressive recreation of different periods of Hungarian history that the country has tried to move on from albeit painfully. The Different sections of the Museum that begins with a hallway full of victims, then instruments of torture, actual cells, gallows and a morgue, witness accounts displayed on screens and pictures that tell a thousand words all bear testimony to the atrocities witnessed and meted. The building housed the Hungarian Nazis in the early 1940’s and later a residence of the AVO and subsequently the AVH who are known to have participated in the worst forms of crimes agai
3 comments
Read more