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Witness 7 Tells ICC of Murders

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Witness Seven in the on going ICC cases yesterday said several police officers sided with Kalenjin youth, who attacked the Kikuyu when violence erupted in Eldoret after the 2007/08 General Election. The witness said the attackers killed people by slashing them into pieces and putting the bodies into sacks.

The witness who was a resident at Yamumbi at the time, said police did not assist the victims and he could see them from his hideout. Asked if he knew the ethnicity of the police, the witness said he heard some of them speak in Nandi. He recalled seeing an individual identified by a pseudo name, Person 10 and a Kikuyu, accompanied by the police, as if to seek protection from them as the violence escalated.

According to the witness, Person 10 went to his home with the police hoping to be assisted to salvage his property but when they arrived, they found attackers already in his compound. The witness’ said Person 10 in police presence, was cut into pieces. “Anyone with money could buy the police to drive him to safety.

I cannot tell you what Person 10 gave the police but I saw them coming from Eldoret town direction.

He wanted the police to help him recover property from his house since most of the surrounding ones were on fire,” said the witness. The witness said the young men from Kikuyu community got agitated when they saw their clansmen attacked and defended themselves. “I remember one time when the police went to where the Nandi and Kikuyu were fighting and shot in the air.

It seemed as though the attackers understood why the police shot and they started to burn down houses again,” said the witness. He said the police moved to another location when they noticed houses. Other people including Persons 8, 9 and 11, were attacked as he watched. “When the attackers arrived where Person 9 was, he attempted to flee by jumped over a barbed wire but his clothes got stuck and they cut him into pieces, before calling us to pick up the body,” said the witness.

He recounted how attackers invaded their farms in Yamumbi the night Mwai Kibaki was declared presidential winner. On that particular night, he said at least 10 were burnt down while more than 300 were torched the next day. The Kikuyu hid in the forest and moved to churches and police station the following day.

The witness said at the police station and churches were other tribes including, Luhyas, Kisii who had fled from Langas, fearing attacks. The witness said later they saw the Nandi using iron sheets from burnt houses to build their own houses. Other places where the violence escalated, according to the witness included Kimumu, Maili 4, Kamuyu, Munyaka, Kiambaa and Burnt Forest.

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