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KATANA: Why US embassy bomb blast victims ought to be paid

It's time Parliament enacted legislation to provide for compensation to casualties of terrorism meted on Kenyan soil.

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by KAZUNGU KATANA

Big-read09 August 2023 - 16:10
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Pamela Olum, wife to one of the victims of the 1998 bomb blast on the US Embassy, during the 25th anniversary of the terror attack at August 7th Memorial Park, Nairobi, on August 7, 2023.

This week marks the 25th year since the twin bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam by al Qaeda terrorists . On August 7, 1998, at approximately 10:30a.m., terrorists driving in a truck detonated a large bomb in the rear parking lot, near the ramp to the basement garage, of the US embassy in Nairobi.

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