(13 Sep 2024)
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Eldoret, Kenya – 13 September 2024
1. Wide of people holding a banner
2. Various of activists and athletes marching
3. Mary Liz Biukwa, an activist, marching
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Liz Biukwa, activist and feminist:
"Not only is the killing of Rebbeca a case of femicide but also it’s particularly a case of what we have seen happening to athletes here in Kenya. Kenya prides itself in the fact that it has a lot of training camps for athletes from across the world and if you’re gonna oblige global citizens to come to your country, to pay to train within your camp, you have an obligation to protect them."
5. Mary Liz Biukwa walking
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Liz Biukwa, activist and feminist :
"As soon as Rebecca was killed but also when Tirop was killed in 2022, some of the things that have come out are the fact that a lot of this kind of violence are happening with athletes, they get into relationships with people who are particularly targeting them because of the profession that they are in because we know. If you are an athlete, yes of course, if you win races or even if you represent your country in a level like the Olympics, of course, you are gonna make money and people are targeting women because of that."
7. Various of athletes and activists escorting Cheptegei’s body
8. Activists blowing whistles and shouting
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jovial Zuena, activist and feminist:
"Going forth we are going to be having more communication and conversations creating more awareness within sports team having the coaches also be part of the conversations, more athletes across the country."
11. Activists chant UPSOUND "End femicide"
12. Various of the hearse carrying the body of Cheptegei
13. Various of family and relatives mourning Cheptegei
14. Coffin and pastor praying
15. Various of mourners
16. People viewing the body
STORYLINE:
The body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei — who died after being set on fire by her partner in Kenya — was received Friday by family and anti-femicide crusaders, ahead of her burial a day later.
Cheptegei’s family met with dozens of activists Friday who had marched to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital’s morgue in the western city of Eldoret while chanting anti-femicide slogans.
She is the fourth female athlete to have been killed by her partner in Kenya in yet another case of gender-based violence in recent years.
It was a sombre mood at the morgue as athletes and family members viewed Cheptegei’s body which sustained 80% burns after she was doused with gasoline by her partner Dickson Ndiema.
Ndiema also sustained 30% burns on his body and later succumbed.
Ndiema and Cheptegei were said to have quarrelled over a piece of land that the athlete bought in Kenya, according to a report filed by the local chief.
Cheptegei competed in the women’s marathon at the Paris Olympics less than a month before the attack. She finished in 44th place.
Cheptegei’s father, Joseph, said that the body will make a brief stop at their home in the Endebess area before proceeding to Bukwo in eastern Uganda for a night vigil and burial on Saturday.
He told reporters last week that Ndiema was stalking and threatening Cheptegei and the family had informed police.
Kenya’s high rates of violence against women have prompted marches by ordinary citizens in towns and cities this year.
AP Video shot by Fred Ooko
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