THE STANDARD By
Irungu Houghton |
February 13th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Residents of Kibos in Kisumu County salvage their properties after their houses were demolished by the Kenya Railways. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
One week ago, 3,500 men, women and children were forcefully evicted from a settlement they had lived in for 83 years. The evictions are part of an ongoing programme by the Kenya Railways Corporation and other state agencies to expand national railway, water, sewage and road networks. The devastation must leave us wondering. Is there not an alternative that does not have homes, hustles and hopes flattened as Kenya upgrades infrastructure?
Kibos lies between Kisumu East and Muhoroni sub-counties. One of Kisumu County’s four sugar factories can be found here. Kibos is one of the homes of the many railway communities across the nation. Several books, podcasts and films could be written about the Nubians of Kibos.
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The main criticism of the appointment of Effi Eitam as chairman of Yad Vashem focused on his ideology. Among the critics there were even some who praised his contribution to state security. But his actions should also be considered. They are relevant to the “universal” values the World Holocaust Remembrance Center seeks to disseminate.
In December 1987, at the start of the first intifada, Eitam was the commander of the Givati Brigade, then deployed in the Gaza Strip. In February 1988 Givati soldiers beat to death a detainee from the Bureij refugee camp. They, including the battalion commander, were prosecuted in the military court of the Southern Command. It came to be known as the Givati B Trial.