Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came

Updated: 5 Feb 2020

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Wachira Waheire was 25 years old when he was thrown into Kenya's notorious torture cells for possessing a poster saying hunger will lead to revolution. Decades later, the human rights activist sought a meeting with the man he held responsible. It never happened. On Tuesday, former president Daniel Arap Moi died and with him Waheire's hopes for a reckoning.

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01Miriri, D. and Houreld, K. (2020). Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came, from Reuters, 4 February 2020, online. Available at https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/africa/mois-kenyan-torture-victims-mourn-a-reckoning-that-never-came/ar-BBZFahb?li=BBqfWMJ&ocid=mailsignout . Accessed on 5 February 2020

Last updated · 5 Feb 2020

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South African History Online. (2020, February 5). Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0149941

South African History Online (2020) 'Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came', South African History Online, 5 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0149941 (Accessed: 21 July 2026).

South African History Online, Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0149941, (accessed 21 July 2026).

"Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came." South African History Online, 5 Feb. 2020, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0149941. Accessed 21 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came." South African History Online. February 5, 2020. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0149941.