Opinion

No memorial stands at Kiambaa, the site where a Kenya Assemblies of God church was torched with 35 souls inside on New Year’s Day 12 years ago.
A perimeter wall of stone rings the property, but since the mass burial of those killed in the fire attack at the height of the post-2007 election violence, boycotted by local leaders and area residents, its memory has remained too raw to confront.

Three years after the last Kenya cases at the International Criminal Court were terminated for lack of sufficient evidence, many questions remain about what happened to the witnesses who changed or disowned their testimony. The third installment of Omwa Ombara’s God’s Child on the Run, a fictionalized account of her experiences recalls how her life was disrupted by the call from ICC investigators and how security agents stalked her every move.