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As far as Kenya’s Wild Wild West go the trio of Turkana, Baringo and Samburu counties perhaps carry the trophy. It is a desolate frontier of scorching sun and unforgiving terrain. The boom of the gun, wails and screams are its song. Blood and tears are its fluid.
From media accounts, you get a nauseating impression of a godforsaken people. A savage world of grief induced by marauding militia, too wily for the law apparatuses. It’s the sick man of Kenya. The poster-child of these atrocities is manifest in such names as Kapedo, Suguta Valley or Baragoi.
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