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Human Rights Watch recently talked to a 37-year-old mother of two who survived the violence in Naivasha ten years ago about her concerns for the August elections. This is her own account, edited for clarity: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EEach time an election approaches, like now, the memories come back. I was a resident of Kinamba, Naivasha, when violence broke out in December 2007. We started hearing of violence in Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret and Mombasa, but violence in Naivasha only started later in January 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cdiv class=\u0022embed\u0022 data-type=\u0022image\u0022\u003E\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\u0022embed align-right embedded-entity embedded-entity-type-media embedded-entity-bundle-image embedded-entity-viewmode-embeddable embed--right\u0022\u003E\n \n\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n \n \n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\u0022figure figure--expand text-center\u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022figure__media relative inline-block mx-auto\u0022\u003E\n \u003Ca href=\u0022\/modal\/32706\u0022 rel=\u0022modal:open\u0022 class=\u0022figure__link\u0022\u003E\n \u003Cimg srcset=\u0022\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/480w\/public\/multimedia_images_2017\/201707africa_kenya_naivasha.jpg?itok=sYkhf9Ud 480w, \/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/embed_xxl\/public\/multimedia_images_2017\/201707africa_kenya_naivasha.jpg?itok=ymw9X4O3 850w\u0022 sizes=\u0022(max-width: 524px) 100px, 500px\u0022 data-responsive-image-style=\u0022embedded_images\u0022 src=\u0022\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/embed_xxl\/public\/multimedia_images_2017\/201707africa_kenya_naivasha.jpg?itok=ymw9X4O3\u0022 width=\u0022850\u0022 height=\u0022570\u0022 alt=\u0022Ethnic clashes in Naivasha town, 60 km (37 miles) from the capital Nairobi, January 28, 2008. 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Violence\u00a0erupted in Naivasha following a widely disputed presidential election.\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\n\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003Cspan class=\u0022figure__credit\u0022\u003E\u00a9 2008 Reuters\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EA group of young men armed with machetes and batons blocked the main Nairobi- Kisumu highway, flagging vehicles down, flushing occupants out and beating or killing them depending on their ethnic group. Later at night young men moved from house to house in Naivasha neighborhoods, including Kinamba, destroying property, raping women, and killing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThe young men destroyed my property and burned my house. I saw my neighbors raped in front of their children. A neighbor spent two nights locked in her house with her dead husband and son because she was terrified to get out. I was chased from my house and went to seek refuge at a police station. It was horrifying.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EMy husband refused to come back to Naivasha because of what happened in 2007. He is now a farmer in our home village in Siaya county, western Kenya, but I chose to return to continue my clothing boutique business because that is what gives us school fees for our children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThe government has assured us that there will be peace this time, but you can never be sure. In 2007, no one ever got to know who the young men who caused violence here were or where they came from. The young men who attacked my home had masks over their faces so you could not tell who they were.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThe situation now is different because there is a lot of tension here and some of our colleagues thought to support the opposition have already received threats. The threats are again coming from a group of young men.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EWe don\u2019t see police doing anything to stop these threats. This is why most people are already packing and leaving. I am just waiting for schools to close end of July and I will also leave this place. I cannot be here in August for elections.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EI lost a lot in 2007, but I have never been compensated. We hear people are being compensated but some of us have never received anything. I have personally registered my name for compensation four times. The only thing we have been told is that we should wait.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are very fearful. We are not sure whether we can keep our shop operational in this election period. From what I experienced in 2007, I will have to close the shop. 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