Blood on State's hands can't be washed away with propaganda

An injured man being aided by  Gen-Z protesters along Moi Avenue as they remember 60 young people who died in last years reject the finance bill demonstrations  on June 25, 2025. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]

I begin this column by honouring the fallen, the young lives cut short by police bullets, the brave citizens maimed for daring to speak truth to power, and those still lying in hospital beds, their bodies bearing the scars of a government's violent contempt.

These are not nameless statistics. They are sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, Kenyans whose only 'crime' was believing they had the right to protest injustice.