THE first prosecution witness in the case against Deputy President William Ruto and journalist Joshua Sang has named two more Kiambaa attackers during private court sessions at The Hague.
The witness named two step-brothers - Emmanuel Bor and Kimei Bor - as the others who were with Stephen Chamalan and a man identified as Brown.
The witness said the two were sons to Arap Bor who was a director of a school in Kiambaa area and provided a sketch of their home.
"I knew him (Emmanuel) because when you don't have any cows the person who buys milk for everybody, the person who sells milk to everybody. It was his father who sold milk," the witness said.
The witness said Emmanuel was a teacher at Kipkabus secondary school and she knew Kimei because he used to drink a lot.
She said Brown was one of the Kalenjins who came from Nyahururu and moved into a farm in Kimuri in 1994.
The witness said he used to work as a butcher at the time of the attack.
She said the four men were outside the church when she came out running from the fire that they had started.
The witness said she counted at least 13 bodies when she returned on January 2 from the Eldoret Cathedral Church where IDPs had camped from January 1, 2008.
She said she went to her home in the Kiambaa village to assess what had happened.
"Well, I went back to my house on the 2nd. I found that my house hadn't been destroyed but my goods had been stolen, my cows, sheep, they'd been stolen. Also, I had chickens and these chickens also had chicks," the witness said.
The witness was also taken to ask how she learnt that
it was
Kalenjin youth who had burnt their house.
Prosecutor:
Just two more matters 1 before we move on from the sketch. You told the Court that on the previous night, the night preceding the attack -- I beg your pardon. It was on the 30th, and I may 4 as well read your words, you said: "I was fleeing because of the tension that had arisen following the burning down of houses on the 30th by young Kalenjin people in Kimuri." The question is: How did you know that houses were burnt down by young Kalenjin people in Kimuri?
Witness 536:
Do you want to find out how I became aware of this? Well, let me 11 tell you. The first time what happened was when a house was on fire, neighbours would intervene. Secondly, a house doesn't just catch fire on its own or by itself. The third point is that fire does not walk into a house to collect cows and other property within that house.
Prosecutor:
Could you see the fires or is this something that somebody else told you about?
Witness 536:
I have told you over and over again that when this incident took place involving (Redacted), they called me over the phone to ask if the same thing had happened at my place. I told them all was fine where I was. Subsequently, I was told that (Redacted) goods have been stolen, including their cows.