Today, March 24, 2009 is the Human Rights Defenders Day in Kenya.
The day commemorates the assassination in 1996 of Karimi Nduthu who was murdered after finalising an investigative report into the 1992/3 ethnic clashes where there were rampant incidents of state sponsored executions targeting Kikuyu, Kisii, Luo and Luyha populations in Rift Valley, Nyanza, Western and Coast Provinces.
A blog posted in commemoration of this day by prominent activist Cyprian Orina Nyamwamu “The Fight For Freedom, Democracy And Human Rights Is The Necessary Qualification For Kenyan Citizenship” posits that the war against social injustice can only be won when we finally refuse to be pawns and objects of the market which in turn assists the government to keep us impoverished.
Cyprian exhorts us “You young Kenyan professionals and activists; Stand up and be alive. Do not be corpses who died at 18 years and are waiting to be buried at 70years!”
Read “The Fight For Freedom, Democracy And Human Rights Is The Necessary Qualification For Kenyan Citizenship”
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