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Article: Kenya: British soldiers in rape scandal
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- New African
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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An attempt by the British government to play down the rape of Maasai women in rural Kenya by British soldiers for more than 20 years has come a cropper. John Kamau reports from Nairobi.
In the rocky Kenyan hills of Dol Dol, the picturesque terrain of thorny thickets stands out. This is the land where British soldiers have loved to practise every year for decades now. Dol Dol is remote and out of the way. While it was common knowledge that the British "disciplined forces" left hundreds of unexploded bombs in this Maasai territory-an issue that saw the British defence ministry recently part with L4.5 million in an out-of-court settlement to over 200 Maasai victims of unexploded ordnance - ...