Kenyan civil servant Diana Mutisya is devastated that she will not be receiving the same compensation as Americans injured in al-Qaeda's bombing of US embassy in Nairobi 22 years ago.
The majority of the estimated 5,000 people injured the twin bombings to hit the American embassies in Nairobi and the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam on 7 August 1998 will not get any money. Neither will the families of the more than 200 locals who died in the blasts. Each American victim or family of the US embassy attacks will receive $3m, while locally employed staff will receive $400,000, the US media reported. In totalSudan admitted culpability in the attacks after being accused of giving al-Qaeda and its leader Osama Bin Laden technical and financial support in the 1990s. Its removal from a US blacklist allows the country get badly needed debt relief foreign investment and loans from international financial institutions.
"I held his hand for like a minute. I raised these issues with Joe Biden, looking straight in his eye. He said they would look into the issue. It has taken us over 10 years now, we have never heard anything from him," Mr Sidialo said.
224 people were killed in the simultaneous bombings, including 12 Americans. More than 5,000 were injured - hundreds blinded by flying glassMore than 20 people were charged in connection with the bombings. Some are serving life sentences in the US; others not detained have been killed, like al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden
This bit...'Americans cannot be superior, we are all human beings... If anything we're innocent, this thing happened because of them. They [the attackers] were targeting the American embassy where they knew American citizens were.'
The unfairness is staggering..
How is this story UK news ?
Where is our government