Untold story of journalists, activists struggling with Shakahola trauma

Detectives retrieve bodies in Shakahola forest, Kilifi county. [Marioon Kithi, Standard]

It is an experience that is etched in the minds of journalists and human rights activists who were at the forefront of covering one of the deadliest massacres in the country's history.

And as the clock ticks towards the fifth round of exhumation of bodies at Shakahola Forest scheduled for next week, journalists have recounted the trauma they have had to deal with.