Spare victims agony of reliving 2008 memories

Post-election violence did not happen in Mars. It did not happen to Martians. It took place in Kenya. The crimes of post-election violence were not victimless. These were not blue collar crimes. They happened to Kenyans.

There are boys and men who were forcibly circumcised. They were crudely chopped without anesthesia and left by the roadside to bleed to death or to hobble to over-crowded hospitals for medical care. Those who survived the forcible circumcision have not received compensation. Many do not acknowledge their suffering. Since they did not receive any psychological or psychiatric care, every time they hear of the post-election violence and the cases at the International Criminal Court (ICC), they have to re-live the trauma of what happened to them.