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Agony of KDF families after Somalia

Kenya Defence Forces soldier guards a busy street in Fafadun town of Somalia shortly after it fell to them in 2012. [PHOTOS: GEORGE MULALA/STANDARD
 Kenya Defence Forces soldier guards a busy street in Fafadun town of Somalia shortly after it fell to them in 2012. [PHOTOS: GEORGE MULALA/STANDARD

By PAUL WAFULA and NYAMBEGA GISESA
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Francis Kavindu arrived at his Kivani home in Kitui County one Wednesday morning in late 2011. He found men digging a grave. When he inquired who’s grave it was, they told him it was for his fifth born son, Major Samuel Keli Kavindu. Hours later, he collapsed in his bedroom and died broken in heart and spirit.

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