Kenya: Ocampo Six Face Hardest of Times

1 September 2011
opinion

Sometime in the early 1990s, I had a long conversation with a man who was a close confidante of a former political prisoner.

He gave me a detailed account of what his friend had gone through barely 18 months ago, and what it was like to sleep on a cold cement floor with only a single bedbug-ridden blanket to cover yourself with. How some prison warders were sympathetic but others did not bother to conceal their immense pleasure at being able to humiliate a man who had dared oppose the government of President Daniel Moi.

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