650 Kenyans Get Legal Aid for Rape Lawsuit
Hundreds of Kenyan women who claim that they were attacked and raped by British soldiers were granted government legal aid to pursue a class-action suit against the Defense Ministry.
The 650 women say they were the victims of routine attacks, including gang rapes, by troops stationed in Kenya over a 30-year period beginning in 1972.
Martyn Day, their British lawyer, said he has documentary evidence that British commanding officers in Kenya failed to investigate. The ministry said it could not comment because the alleged rapes are also under criminal investigation.
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