Dating Girls
The sound of guns can no longer be heard. Neither can the wailing and mourning of the dead.
But even with soldiers patrolling the area, the people cannot go back to their homes for fear of attacks in a district where violent death is becoming part of life.
Families are still scattered all over the vast district, fearing that the combined force of Kenya Army, General Service Unit and regular and Administration police officers will not provide enough protection should the raiders return.
Security forces have been keeping vigil since July, when conflict between two pastoral communities went out of hand, culminating in a massacre that left at least 90 people dead, mostly women and children.
And although it is at Turbi that the massacre took place, residents of the area did not flee their homes. Apart from a small group, the area's people are from one community.
The children have joined schools in areas where their parents found new homes but no one knows what will happen to the candidates who are to sit their examinations starting today.
But the education officer is disturbed by the situation at Turbi primary school. This is the school at which raiders executed 17 children, nine of whom were nursery school children.
The arrival of the soldiers reminded them of the day of the massacre because their attackers wore jungle uniforms like those worn by the military men.
"These counsellors are yet to come to the school. And this has made me, being a trained counsellor, to give the children lessons," says Mr Kenyakisa.
"Children keep receiving information that another raid is being organised. When they hear such rumours, they cannot concentrate on their studies," a teacher at the school, Ms Nuria Abdi Hamed laments.
But their parents believe they are being discriminated against because they come from a community that rivals that of the headteacher and most of the teachers.
About 45-kilometres away from Huri Hills is Forolle primary school. Here tension is high ever since about 50 people who were evicted and went to camp at Madago trading centre promised to return to hit back.
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But even with soldiers patrolling the area, the people cannot go back to their homes for fear of attacks in a district where violent death is becoming part of life.
Families are still scattered all over the vast district, fearing that the combined force of Kenya Army, General Service Unit and regular and Administration police officers will not provide enough protection should the raiders return.
Security forces have been keeping vigil since July, when conflict between two pastoral communities went out of hand, culminating in a massacre that left at least 90 people dead, mostly women and children.
And although it is at Turbi that the massacre took place, residents of the area did not flee their homes. Apart from a small group, the area's people are from one community.
The children have joined schools in areas where their parents found new homes but no one knows what will happen to the candidates who are to sit their examinations starting today.
But the education officer is disturbed by the situation at Turbi primary school. This is the school at which raiders executed 17 children, nine of whom were nursery school children.
The arrival of the soldiers reminded them of the day of the massacre because their attackers wore jungle uniforms like those worn by the military men.
"These counsellors are yet to come to the school. And this has made me, being a trained counsellor, to give the children lessons," says Mr Kenyakisa.
"Children keep receiving information that another raid is being organised. When they hear such rumours, they cannot concentrate on their studies," a teacher at the school, Ms Nuria Abdi Hamed laments.
But their parents believe they are being discriminated against because they come from a community that rivals that of the headteacher and most of the teachers.
About 45-kilometres away from Huri Hills is Forolle primary school. Here tension is high ever since about 50 people who were evicted and went to camp at Madago trading centre promised to return to hit back.
This is cache, read story here
