Margaret Risambu, 30, is one of hundreds of Kenyan women who were allegedly raped by British soldiers in a period spanning 30 years. She spoke to BBC News Online:
It was in 1988 when I went to visit my brother-in-law who works at Wamba. I travelled from Nairobi and when I went to Wamba I was like a local tourist because it is a remote place.
 The women want maintenance for their children |
I decided to walk around and see the place, how it looks like. It happened that my brother-in-law owned sheep and goats and I decided to follow the herd.
On the way there is a polytechnic which the British Army guys were constructing.
They asked me whether the goats were mine.
I told them they were my brother-in-law's and that I was just looking after them.
I did not know that they had anything behind it.
Dragged
The place is a bushy place with thorn trees and there is a certain river called the Namunyaki that you have to cross to get to the polytechnic.
They dragged me down.
They were four of them.
I was pregnant at that time... two months pregnant.
So, I started bleeding furiously and from that time in 1988 I have not been able to conceive.
I had some scratches on the thighs.
Medical tests
I do not have enough money to go for medical tests to find out what happened.
 The women claim the rapes went on for a period of 30 years |
My case was in 1988 - there were many more cases before that. This time we want to know what the British want with us.
We have the exhibits - the kids are there.
So we need them to tell us what they are going to do with us from now onwards.
Most of these kids are suffering - they are sick.
You look at the skin of a kid - you will never know what is happening.
We want education for those kids; we want shelter for those kids.
Most of those who were raped and now have kids left school.