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Life in the West not a bed of roses for Kenyans

NAIROBI: Four years ago, I witnessed a deportation drama involving a young Kenyan at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. His hands and legs were in chains.

His face had this haunted look; the same expression I saw on Abdullah Ocalan’s face, the Kurdish nationalistic leader when he was arrested in Nairobi in 1999. It is the expression of a trapped animal.

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