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Kenyan Communities Seek Compensation for Colonial-Era Land Grab

Mohammed Yusuf

   KERICHO, KENYA - As Kenya marks the anniversary of its independence
   from British colonial rule, two communities in the Great Rift Valley
   are asking the United Nations to investigate a colonial-era land grab.
   The Kipsigis and Talai communities accuse the British of collective
   punishment by forcefully evicting them off their land, which was turned
   into profitable tea farms.

   Every year on December 12, Kenyans celebrate the day in 1963 their
   country won independence from British colonial rule.

   For one man, 95-year-old Kibore Cheruiyot Ngasura there is nothing to
   celebrate.

   Ngasura was forced out of his home in 1934. He remembers the scene to
   this day.

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