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A chill ran down my spine. I broke into a cold sweat when his image and name flashed across the television screen. Felicien Kabuga, a frail, 87-year-old man, whose name has come to symbolise murderous hatred that galvanised the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was at last standing trial in The Hague.
Here is a man whose alleged crimes against humanity claimed lives of a combined population equivalent to the population of Lamu, Isiolo, Samburu and Taveta counties.
My head went into a spin. It dawned on me that his tragic story has for more than 27 years been sadly intertwined with that of Kenya. During my active tour of duty as a reporter and editor with the Nation Media Group, I saw how close Kenya came to taking the Rwandan genocide route.
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