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www.marsgroup<strong>kenya</strong>.org<br />

“She wanted the fewest possible barriers between herself and those she lived and<br />

worked with. She chose <strong>to</strong> be without a name, without the security of a religious<br />

order, without membership of any organization,” says UNICEF consultant<br />

Maggie Black.<br />

Even as she received the Nansen Award, Tonelli shied away from publicity about<br />

her work in Kenya and Somalia. “I have always tried <strong>to</strong> stay hidden and refused<br />

any publicity,” she said last June in Geneva.<br />

And with her death, the circumstances surrounding an already clouded incident<br />

only got hazier.<br />

According <strong>to</strong> Benson Kaaria, who was North Eastern Provincial Commissioner at<br />

the time, many of the key people involved in the massacre are dead.<br />

Among them was a Major Mdogo, the army officer who commanded the<br />

operation, and the area police boss, a Mr. Namwoso<br />

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