Dozens of children filed silently into the room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army.

Church leader Wycliffe Masibo describes seeing an elderly member of his flock whipped to death during a Kenyan army search for militiamen in his remote mountain village. Having made all the men lie on the floor, soldiers kicked and hit them, demanding they tell them where guns were kept.