A sombre gathering at the Kenya High Commission this morning. British families, their faces etched with grief, laid wreaths for loved ones lost one year ago. The protesters had demanded justice, land rights.
The response: barbed wire barricades, tear gas, live rounds. The official death toll: 50. The unofficial: whispered to be higher.
The Foreign Office issued a statement, calling for 'calm and restraint.' But inside the Westminster village, the real question is who knew what, and when. Labour MPs are demanding a full inquiry.
The Government, wary of setting a precedent, is stalling. Tory backbenchers, normally hawkish on foreign policy, are uneasy. The optics are terrible.
British taxpayers funded tear gas canisters used against civilians. That leak, from a Whitehall source, landed on my desk at 6am. The families don't care about the politics.
They want names. They want accountability. The barbed wire remains a symbol.
For them, a scar. For us, a story that won't die.
