State violence will always return to eat perpetrators

Democracy activist and former Prisoner of Conscience (David) Onyango Oloo died this week. He died peacefully, but his sunset years were increasingly more difficult.

Why do the Kenyans that put almost everything at personal stake for the country suffer so much? More ironically, why do some of those that violate the rights and dignity of others suffer almost as much in the end? The answer lies in the way human rights violations indignify both survivors and offenders alike.