PART III Extent and Impact of Post Election Violence - Mars Group ...

ansacking the house looking for weapons or the people hiding in my
house. One of the army men told me ‘climb on the bed and remove
your inner pants’ I got shocked him being a security officer. He
pushed me on the bed and started raping me. The army man who
was ransacking the house was the second one to rape me and the
army man guarding the door was the third to rape me”. 218
A 50 year old woman and a resident of Kibera testified in camera to the
Commission recounting to the Commission what had happened to her in the
following statement:
“…..[A]t around 6:30 pm two (2) motor vehicles came with GSU
policemen in uniform, green (with patches) and they had a cap the
same colour. Thinking that they were coming to assist us, we were
very happy but that was not the case. They hit a jiko that had fire
and it fell on my daughter Juliana and she got burnt on her
feet……one policeman hit my eyes. I fell down and my blood pressure
rose. He tore my clothes. He raped me I got unconscious as the other
ransacked the house. The same man raped my daughter J. She
became pregnant though on 5/7/08, she had a miscarriage” 219.
In some cases, the security agents attacked individuals, including teenagers,
during flight. According to the statement of a 17 years old girl from Eldoret
currently living in a children’s home in Nakuru, she was attacked by 7
Administrative Police Officers who gang raped her. At the time of the attack, she
was running away from her sister’s house which had been attacked by some
raiders during the post election violence. 220
Not only did the Commission hear of commissions by security officers, who
should have helped to prevent sexual violence rather than engaging in it
218 CIPEV Investigators Jobsheet, Nairobi, 10 July 2008.
219 CW 17, Statement, Exhibit 17A
220 CIPEV Investigators Jobsheet, Nakuru, 30 July 2008.
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