Kenyan mother mourns a 12 -year -old shot. She watches television during the Saba Saba protests

On Monday, while anti -government protests swept parts of Kenya, 12 -year -old Bridge Nagoki sat down as she watched television in her modest family home.

She had no idea that the deadly clashes between these demonstrators and the Kenya armed police would find her way to her living room.

Her mother, Lucy Naguji, told the BBC: one bullet penetrated the ceiling, fixed the ceiling and hit Najuki in the head, as her mother says, Lucy Nagogi, to the BBC. Within hours, her death was announced in the hospital.

“It was everything,” says Ms. Naguji, while she was in her home outside the capital. “It was all I have.”

“Let me be the last mother who is crying because of the death of a child. An innocent child. I wish she was playing abroad … but inside the house? O Lord, this is painful.”

Najoki is one of the youngest victims of the violence that shook Kenya during the past month. According to the Kenya National Human Rights Committee (KNCHR), approximately 70 people died and hundreds were wounded in the three main protests that took place since June 17.

Protests – which are mainly led by Kenyan youth – reflects the increasing discontent over issues such as the cost of living, tax increase, fleeing public debts, and police brutality.

On July 7, on the day Najuki died, the authorities surrounded the main roads in preparation for the demonstrations.

Video evidence shows that the police launch tear gas, and in some cases, live tours in residential areas where the demonstrators reassemble their ranks.

“The bullet came on the roof of the house. I hacked the ceiling, as Naguki was sitting on a chair,” says Jeddah Najuki, Margaret Najri.

Immediately, she grabbed her mother and came screaming to my house: “My mother, my child has been shot! “I couldn’t even carry the child.”

The family believed that it was far from violent clashes, given that she lived in Ndumberi, a village about 1.2 miles from a main road.

“I was sure she was a bullet,” says Najuki’s mother. “The uproar that struck the ceiling was very high. Very loud.”

The police refused the family’s demands, and insisted that the bullet was unable to travel from the main road to their home. But Najuki’s body without life told a different story.

A report from the 12 -year -old post -death examination says that doctors recovered a bullet from her body, and that her head was “consistent with a shot.”

Njoki was a seventh grade student at the Benson Njau School in Ting’ANG’A, a nearby village. As the eldest in the family, she was a leader of the assault and family pride.

“She was always the number one in her chapter,” says her grandmother. “Very obedient, very specific, very elegant.

“Even in the way she spoke. She was just a very good girl. I liked the service in the church. She helped her brothers. She was cooking for me. It was everything.”

Najuki’s mother describes her as “a beautiful girl, a charming girl, she has a lot of dreams.”

Her father is crushed, unable to speak. Its siblings are silent as well. Sad sadness like shroud at home, while a naguical chair sits empty.

Dozens like Najoki died on international condemnation.

The United Nations said it was very troubled by the killings and criticized the Kenyan police for using “deadly ammunition” against the demonstrators.

All this seems to be a repetition last year, when more than 50 years died in a police campaign on months of anti -government protests.

President Roto has taken a particularly difficult position this time.

In a national speech after the July 7 protests, 38 people were killed, according to the state -run human rights committee, Roto said: “Anyone who burns the actions of another person or his property in his leg should be burned, and they were taken to the hospital and then to the court.

Roto accused their political competitors of inciting violence in an attempt to abolish it illegally, but the president’s opponents rejected this claim.

Meanwhile, in the return of the Nagoki family, it simply calls for brutality.

Her mother says, “I will bury Nagoki, but I will never forget the day of Saba Saba (July 7). Let Najuki be the last sacrifice of these protests,” says her mother.

The anti -government protest movement has reshaped Kenyan policy. He called for transparency, sympathy and ear listening. But it also pushed the blood.

As the uprising continues, the name Njoki and the sky of many others became a symbol – from innocence, transcending the state, and non -accountability.

“Let’s not burn our country. Let’s have a dialogue. Let’s talk. We are brothers and sisters, I beg to our government – let this not happen to any other father.”

“Don’t let another child die like Najoki.”