ICC Note: According to reports, last month two Christian sisters in their twenties were attacked with blunt objects in coastal Kenya. A church building was also burned down in the same region where Islamic radicals killed at least 13 individuals last summer, including the sisters’ father. Violence against Christians along the coast of Kenya has greatly increased in recent years leading to a rise in church attacks and murders of innocent churchgoers.
03/18/2015 Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two sisters in their mid-20s were attacked and a church building burned last month in an area of Kenya where Islamic extremists killed at least 13 people last July – including the young women’s father.
Somalis in coastal Kenya’s Lamu County struck 25-year-old Annah after she answered their knock on the door on Feb. 22 at about 7:30 p.m. in the village of Hindi, said her sister, Karuiki. Islamic extremists from Somalia killed their father, Simon, on July 5, 2014. The surnames of all three are withheld for security reasons.
“The attackers made a knock at the door, and my sister decided to go and open the door, only to be hit with a blunt sharp object near the forehead,” Karuiki said. “My sister fell down screaming, and I decided to rush in to help. Just at the door, I was hit on my right hand, and I fell down.”
Neighboring Muslims rushed over, and the attackers fled, she said. Annah began seriously bleeding, and neighbors called for a motorbike to come and take the women to a hospital.
The assailants spoke the Somali language and broken Kiswahili, Karuiki said.
“As they fled,” she said, “a neighbor heard one saying, ‘We do not want hard-haired [Kenyan] Christians in our region – they should go back to where they came from. We shall soon come back again.’”
The rest of the sisters’ family was away at their hometown in central Kenya at the time of the attack. Upon learning of the assault, their mother came to them at the hospital in Mpeketoni, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Hindi.
