Pictures coming from rebeccas home town of bukwo. Close to the kenyan border in uganda. Last night, on friday, family members, friends and activists against gender based Violence Viewed Rebeccas coffin at the Funeral Home in the kenyan town before her body was brought back to her hometown. We heard her mother was wearing a Souvenir Bag at the time, that the athlete had received at the Paris Olympics where she competed in the marathon. Patience akumu is a ugandan lawyer she told me what lessons needed to be learned from Rebecca Cheptegeis violent death. We need to reflect about the ways in which women, no matter their social status, ways in which women, no matter theirsocialstatus, no ways in which women, no matter their social status, no matter what they have achieved in life, are still expected to bow to the expectations of society, evenif to the expectations of society, even if it kills them. Domestic violence is still a reality for many women in africa, in euston africa. The statist
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This is a very sad day for this community. They have remembered her as a humble member of this community who inspired many children to take up athletics, and who was ready to help many people. Herfamily has been remembering her as a pillar of their family, of their large family. She was supporting many of them, and so this is a big blow for them and also for the community in bukwo. Earlier in the day, the counsellors met and passed a motion to name a road and a stadium in honour of Rebecca Cheptegei. So the chart is currently running the funeral programme, but this is very much also a military event. They will be honouring her. We understand with a Gun Salute where she will be buried not too far from here at her fathers homestead. Rebeccas violent death has prompted a great deal of discussion in uganda and kenya. What is likely to change, though, as a result of her dying this way . Well, the hope is that its going to change, um, the way the laws are implemented, because the experts say
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