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11.09.02      
Nairobi bomb victims want compensation from U.S.A.
Bombenopfer von Nairobi wollen Entschädigung von USA
 
The anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington has been marked across Africa, while some newspapers have used the occasion to warn the United States against attacking Iraq.



Am 7. August 1998 waren die diplomatischen Vertretungen der USA in der kenianischen Hauptstadt Nairobi und in Tansanias Hauptstadt Dar-es-Salaam Ziele von Bombenattentaten islamischer Extremisten, die später von den Amerikanern der Organisation Osman Bin Ladens zugeordnet wurden. Allein in dem 25-stöckigen Gebäude, in dem die US-Botschaft in Kenia untergebracht war, verloren nahezu 100 kenianische Bankangestellte ihr Leben.



About 50 victims, members of the Nairobi Bomb Blast Survivors Association, marched to the bomb memorial in the city and accused the US of discriminating against Kenyans affected by the blast. They said only Americans were compensated "yet most of us were more affected".

Etwa 50 Angehörige einer Vereinigung von Überlebenden des Bombenanschlags zogen zu der Gedenkstätte in Nairobi. Dabei beschuldigten sie die USA, nur amerikanische Opfer des Attentats entschädigt zu haben und Kenianer zu diskriminieren.

 

The picture above is of the Nairobi bomb blast which occured on August 7th 1998 - a day Kenyans remember with a lot of sorrow. The bomb went off at 10:30 a.m and was the first in the country's history. The target was the US Embassy in Nairobi and the death toll was more than 200 people with about 4000 seriously wounded. It is believed to have been carried out by some Islamic extremists. The blast literally brought Kenya's capital to a standstill as no one had expected such an occurrence. The 25 story building in focus is the Co-operative Bank of Kenya in which nearly 100 employees lost their lives. At the same time a similar bomb went off in Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Kenya's neighbour Tanzania also just next to the US Embassy. 

A ceremony has been held in Nairobi, the scene of the attack by al-Qaeda in 1998 which killed 213 people, mostly Kenyans.



Im Gedenken an die insgesamt 213 Toten fand am 11.09.2002 an der nationalen Gedenkstätte eine Trauerfeier statt.