#kenyan femicide

[crepusculedaemon]

There is no excuse for cruelty let alone the brutality felt by palestinians and the congolese we all at one time know the feeling of being unheard many of us the feeling of being less than human all of us who have felt this have a duty to speak for palestine and the DRC and everyone else being ineffably abused as they are.

[limeade-l3sbian]

"Demonstrations are taking place across major cities in Kenya to protest against the rising cases of femicide and other violence against women.

Hundreds have gathered in Nairobi, Nakuru, Mombasa, Nyeri and Lodwar, some carrying placards with the names of those who were killed.

A 2022 survey found at least one in three Kenyan women had endured physical violence at some point in their lives.

"I am here because I'm angry," 33-year-old Winnie Chelagat told the BBC.

"It is wrong, we are tired and we want something to be done about it."

Men and boys must take responsibility for their own actions instead of the burden being on women and girls to protect themselves, said another protester called Michael Onyango."

[nando161mando]

‘Stop killing us!’: Thousands march to protest against femicide in Kenya

The demonstration was the largest-event ever against sexual and gender-based violence in the country. #press

[coochiequeens]

Thousands protest against increasing violence against women in Kenya as they march to the parliamentary building and supreme court in the capital Nairobi [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

Published On 27 Jan 202427 Jan 2024

Thousands of people have gathered to protest in cities and towns in Kenya against the recent slayings of more than a dozen women.

The anti-femicide demonstration on Saturday was the largest event ever held in the country against sexual and gender-based violence.

In the capital, Nairobi, protesters wore T-shirts printed with the names of women who became homicide victims this month. The crowd, composed mostly of women, brought traffic to a standstill.

“Stop killing us!” the demonstrators shouted as they waved signs with messages such as “There is no justification to kill women.”

The crowd in Nairobi was hostile to attempts by the parliamentary representative for women, Esther Passaris, to address them. Accusing Passaris of remaining silent during the latest wave of killings, protesters shouted her down with chants of “Where were you?” and “Go home!”

“A country is judged by not how well it treats its rich people, but how well it takes care of the weak and vulnerable,” said Law Society of Kenya President Eric Theuri, who was among the demonstrators.

Kenyan media outlets have reported the slayings of at least 14 women since the start of the year, according to Patricia Andago, a data journalist at media and research firm Odipo Dev who also took part in the march.

Odipo Dev reported this week that news accounts showed at least 500 women were killed in acts of femicide from January 2016 to December 2023. Many more cases go unreported, Andago said.

Two cases that gripped Kenya this month involved two women who were killed at Airbnb accommodations. The second victim was a university student who was dismembered and decapitated after she reportedly was kidnapped for ransom.

Theuri said cases of gender-based violence take too long to be heard in Kenyan court, which he thinks emboldens perpetrators to commit crimes against women.

“As we speak right now, we have a shortage of about 100 judges. We have a shortage of 200 magistrates and adjudicators, and so that means that the wheel of justice grinds slowly as a result of inadequate provisions of resources,” he said.

People gather to protest in an anti-femicide demonstration, the largest event of its kind ever held in Kenya. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

Kenyan media outlets have reported the slayings of at least 14 women since the start of the year. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

A protester holds a Palestinian flag during a march to protest against the rising cases of femicide, in downtown Nairobi. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]

Women and feminists in Kenya took to the streets to march against the rising cases of femicide. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]

In Nairobi, protesters wore T-shirts printed with the names of women who became homicide victims this month. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

Protesters react against the rising cases of femicide. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]

A human rights activist reacts as she attends a protest demanding an end to femicide in the country. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]

Protesters gather during the anti-femicide demonstration. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

The crowd, composed mostly of women, brought traffic to a standstill. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

[womenaremypriority]

Does anyone remember the report of the Kenyan serial killer who killed 42 women? And the person who said it was a form of coverup? I was curious where that was and looked where it is now:

From 17 June

From 17 June

From 21 July

19 July

I can understand why people are hesitant to believe this and see it as a way to dismiss the issue of femicide. At the very least there’s a lot to criticize the police about- unsurprisingly. I tried to find a more recent source, but I couldn’t, I’m sorry. If someone knows more or is from the area please tell me!! I don’t know annoying I just want people to keep talking about this so I wanted to share this here. I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s a tragedy by any definition.

[myrebelancestorsdiedforme]

An official from the Kenyan hospital has confirmed that Dickson Ndiema, the ex-boyfriend of Ugandan athlete #RebeccaCheptegei, has died from burns sustained after setting her on fire. Ndiema murdered the marathon runner over a week ago as she returned home from church, dousing her with petrol before igniting the blaze. Local authorities revealed the two had been in conflict over a small piece of land in north-west Kenya, where Cheptegei lived and trained.

#dswstory #femicide #protectblackwomen

[mynewshq]

Family receives body of Ugandan Olympic athlete set on fire by her partner

The body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei who died after being set on fire by her partner in Kenya was received Friday by family and anti-femicide crusaders, ahead of her burial a day later. Cheptegei’s family met with dozens of activists Friday who had marched to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital’s morgue in the western city of Eldoret while chanting anti-femicide slogans. She is the fourth female athlete to have been killed by her partner in Kenya in yet another case of gender-based violence in recent years. Viola Cheptoo, the founder of Tirop Angels - an organization that was formed in honour of athlete Agnes Tirop, who was stabbed to death in 2021, said stakeholders need to ensure this is the last death of an athlete due to gender-based violence. “We are here to say that enough is enough, we are tired of burying our sisters due to GBV,” she said. It was a somber mood at the morgue as athletes and family members viewed Cheptegei’s body which sustained 80% of burns after she was doused with gasoline by her partner Dickson Ndiema. Ndiema sustained 30% burns on his body and later succumbed. Ndiema and Cheptegei were said to have quarrelled over a piece of land that the athlete bought in Kenya, according to a report filed by the local chief. Cheptegei competed in the women’s marathon at the Paris Olympics less than a month before the attack. She finished in 44th place. Cheptegei’s father, Joseph, said that the body will make a brief stop at their home in the Endebess area before proceeding to Bukwo in eastern Uganda for a night vigil and burial on Saturday. “We are in the final part of giving my daughter the last respect,” a visibly distraught Joseph said. He told reporters last week that Ndiema was stalking and threatening Cheptegei and the family had informed police. Kenya’s high rates of violence against women have prompted marches by ordinary citizens in towns and cities this year. Four in 10 women or an estimated 41% of dating or married Kenyan women have experienced physical or sexual violence perpetrated by their current or most recent partner, according to the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2022. Read the full article

[rebeleden]

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Watch Kenyan Airbnb murder: How femicide exposed toxic online misogyny - BBC News Headlines

[williamchasterson]

Kenyan Airbnb murder: How femicide exposed toxic online misogyny

A young woman was dismembered and stuffed in a plastic bag – the internet blames her. from BBC News – World https://ift.tt/Dwdkcfu via IFTTT

[mithliya]

1. false, “the religion” (which again, ive shared cases of men from various different religions here) does not prescribe that you kill your own female relatives or partners if: they show their face on tiktok, they don’t have a son, they don’t give the tv remote, they get an abortion, they move to another country, they refuse an arranged marriage, they date a non-muslim, they have a snapchat, they don’t wear a scarf, they are pregnant and unmarried, they don’t serve him food at night, they somehow make the man jealous, they removed the AirTag he secretly put in their car, they asked him to buy bread, they sold beans without his permission, they break up with him. men feel entitled to killing women for these reasons bc of a larger culture of entitlement towards the women in their lives, this entitlement is a societal problem rather than simply caused by them reading religious scripture.

2. what culture? again, i’ve shared cases of americans, chinese-malaysians, saudis, iraqis, indians, iranians, nigerians, americans (of different races, 2 from texas & 1 from illionois), pakistanis, and kenyans. which culture then? the men were christian, hindu, buddhist, or muslim, which religion do we blame here?

3. you don’t like when the west is grouped together as one culture but you just grouped at least 10 cultures together in your claims that these men killed women because of “their culture”… i wonder what culture made josef fritzl kidnap, lock up, and rape his daughter for decades? was it austrian culture that made him do it? how about mikhail popkov, did russian culture make him kill & rape dozens of women and girls? did peter sutcliffe kill women because of english culture? femicide in europe is highest in poland, a country that is 98.6% european & 91% catholic, does polish culture make the men kill women?

as i have said… the one thing they ALL have in common isn’t culture, nationality, religion, or race. what all the cases i’ve shared have in common is that they are men who killed the women in their lives. there are similar cases around europe, done by white christian men, too. male violence against women is a global phenomena and blaming it on culture is a good way of pretending otherwise.

[pinktheoristcollector]

Mothers speak out over Kenya femicide cases

Kenyan mothers whose daughters have been killed are joining a national conversation about femicide. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/30rwjMM from Blogger http://bit.ly/2YyZvzF via IFTTT

[severeprincesheep]

There's much worse than that:

"an incident involving her Kenyan boyfriend pouring petrol and setting fire on her"

It's farcical how hard men will talk about femicide as if it were an act of nature for which no one in particular is to blame, like a hurricane or an earthquake.

It's not that he injured her, she suffered injuries. It's not that a man set her on fire, but a fire that somehow came into existence then came in contact with her body and eventually she perished of related injuries.

It'd be comical if this weren't the rhetoric of the men who ally themselves with the perpetrators of deliberate murder.

Let me fix this headline real quick.

Olympic Marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei was murdered by a man she loved and trusted.

Call it what it is, she didn’t magically get set on fire. He deliberately poured gasoline on her and then lit a match intending to kill her. She suffered severe burns on over 75% of her body.