As Kenyan Rivals Haggle, a Mother Weeps at 2 Graves

from The New York Times



It did not take many people to carry the coffins of Wycliffe and Cynthia Awino.

They were 7 and 9 years old.

The brother and sister were burned to death by a mob last month in Kenya in the explosion of postelection violence. And if there ever was a woman alone, it was their mother, Millicent Awino, who stood by herself at the foot of two freshly dug graves on Thursday, blotting out reality with her hands over her face, as her only children disappeared into the ground.

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