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Trail of tears as troops rape Kenyan Women

By Waweru Mugo

Kenya: “They not only tore off my (school) uniform and my pants… They ripped me apart. I was a virgin and they broke my virginity. Oh… I bled profusely and when I tried to scream, one held my mouth. After they were through, they abandoned me by the roadside, perhaps to die in the forest,” Tabitha Asli* remembers of the painful episode that would forever dim her future.

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