Discipleship Ministries Friend, Amani, Contacts Us Again.

5 Jan 2008

We ask if he has seen any one hurt or murdered he responds:

Brother, I may admit that many people were killed before me during the time of escape. Some were hacked to death using crude weapons including arrows and machetes. There was no single time to spare since everyone was busy trying to save his or her life and that of his her children.

We ask for him first hand account of how and what made you decide to flee your home when the violence started... His response was:

We ask of It was on a Saturday (29 Dec 2007) last week just before the general elections results were about to be announced. I was in my place of work as usual. Then all over a sudden, a group of young men struck a matatu (a van-taxi) that was going to town and started pelting stones to that matatu and thereafter there was war everywhere. My wife and I were caught in the violent but we managed to escape to our home. So it was during the night that we heard whistles of danger that a large group was coming towards our homes, torching houses and hacking people to death and we got scared and decided to flee from our homes carrying only blankets and some foodstuffs for the children. It was a scary ordeal, I tell you brother.