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Films
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“East Africa”
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Year of production
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Kenya
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Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
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War / Conflict / Reconciliation
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Directors
Heald, Suzette
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Country of production
United Kingdom
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Year of production
2010
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Film
Law and War in Rural Kenya
2010
64
‘
Directed by
Suzette Heald
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In 1998, a new movement swept through Kuria, in south western Kenya with dramatic effect. Cattle raiding fuelled by the increasing presence of guns had led to a situation of total insecurity, with all in fear of the thieves. In April of that year, a group of men in just one location, Bukira East, effected a new organisation merging ideas from the Tanzanian vigilante movement, sungusungu, with their own indigenous assembly, the iritongo. Within a year the movement had spread throughout Kuria and the District as a whole was at peace.
East Africa
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy