Rape of Samburu (Kenya) Women by British Army

[Milk]

For more than fifty years, England has maintained military training facilities in the Samburu region of its former colony, Kenya. During this period, women in the area have faced an epidemic of rape. Women from the Samburu, Massai, Rendile and Turkana indigenous communities have filed more than 600 official rape claims against British soldiers. Yet, despite documentation of their claims, a three-year internal investigation by the Royal Military Police (RMP) cleared all soldiers of wrongdoing.

Meanwhile, the victims have been shamed and outcast in their communities, many to the point of exile. In the mid-1990s, Beatrice Chili responded to this situation by establishing the village of Senchen, a self-sufficient community run entirely by women. There, women build homes, weave textiles, gather and grow food, and raise children. This short film visits the brave women of Senchen, who speak candidly about their suffering and talk passionately about their demands for justice. Watch the film to hear their stories and to find out how you can offer your support.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Beautiful dresses.

Wtf are the British doing in Kenya?
I feel like a lot of these African men are cowards. The one's who left their wives after they were raped, and the government who continues to allow the British to occupy their land and rape their women.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

shout out to those doing good though, both men and women in kenya.

 

[88m3]

 

[thekingsmen]

Kenya should be setting examples of foreigners raping their women.

 

[Red Shield]

Beautiful dresses.

Wtf are the British doing in Kenya?
I feel like a lot of these African men are cowards. The one's who left their wives after they were raped, and the government who continues to allow the British to occupy their land and rape their women.

They are cowards.. but god damn I think that might just be a africa and her diaspora thing in general

 

[koolkeef]

I thought this was gonna be about colonial era Kenya.

The fukk???