Members of the Kenya-Stockholm community have entered into a crisis of sorts after watching the shocking video in which suspected witches are captured being burnt alive in a village in Kenya. The graphic video, which has also shocked the world, shows the suspected witches being brutally beaten with a huge stick as extra “fire wood” is fetched to facilitate their effective roasting to death.
In the meantime, the video features a crowd cheering along gleefully as smoke bellows. The video does not show the suspected witches dying but it leaves no doubt in the mind of the viewer that they were eventually burnt to death.
Several Kenyans have contacted KSB to narrate their emotional traumas after viewing the video with many of them admitting that they can never watch the video twice. The video was featured by KSB after an agent who was on routine check up in the net for any strange Kenyan stuff fished it from a video-hosting web site.
Another Kenyan lady said that she had to call friends to be with her after she watched the video because she was “very disturbed”. In another case, a Kenyan mother switched the computer off abruptly to prevent her child from watching the video. She was afraid that the video could trigger an emotional trauma which could last forever and cause the kid to fear making a trip back home on grounds that she might be burnt alive.
In yet another case, a Kenyan disconnected an electrical cable connected to his computer and later pretended that the computer had broken down to prevent his Swedish spouse from watching the video because KSB is set as their home page. Throughout the evening, he pretended to have been trying to fix the problem hoping that other stories would be posted at KSB so that the video link could be pushed downwards and away from sight. For two days, he kept telling his spouse that the computer has not been fixed as he employed various time-buying techniques to ensure that the spouse did not watch the video.
He told KSB that the risk was that if his Swedish spouse watched the video, the couple would enter into crisis because he believed that the spouse would think that the Kenyan could burn her alive if they had a domestic quarrel which, he said, they had from time to time.
In yet another development, a Kenyan failed to sleep the whole night and in the morning, she called her work to say that she was unwell. Another Kenyan tried to call Prime Minister Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki “for the first time in his life” to establish why Kenya had become a failed State. He wondered why there was no security in the vicinity to save the victims of barbarism and why the culprits could not be arrested to face the law.
Domestic crisis ends at the psychologist
One Kenyan couple who never goes to Church called the local Pastor to request for special prayers because “they were disturbed”. They could not imagine the pain the victims underwent before they died and in the memory of the victims, they decided to trace the local Swedish Pastor to help them cope with the emotional disturbance which had hit the family.
A Kenyan who was called by a friend and told to watch the video urgently at KSB slipped by in an Internet café to tune in. After the show, he said he had to take a diversion to the local drinking hole to get zonked because there was no way he could travel back to his flat “without help.” He had switched off his phone to avoid contacts during the moment of “emotional healing” but when he got back home, a new crisis was awaiting him.
He entered into crisis with his wife who wondered why he had switched off the phone then proceeded to come home when he was drunk late in the night and without notice. The crisis began when the “Lady of the house” accused him of having been with another woman after the lady refused to give him time to explain his the problem. The woman screamed at him and threatened to walk out of the relationship unless the guy could give her a better reason why he had been out and without contact.
When the lady calmed down, the guy explained that he had been emotionally disturbed by a video he had watched at KSB of Kenyans being burnt alive but the lady refused to believe the story saying it was crap. At that point, the man requested that they go to the computer so that the woman could watch the video in question and the woman agreed. She switched on the computer, connected to the Internet and clicked the link. It was at this time when things began to change.
At first, the woman paid attention to the screen then she opened her mouth in deep surprise after which she put her hand on her mouth in disbelief before she began to scream. By then, the video had not gone half way. As the woman got her dose of shock, the guy lay on the sofa. Suddenly, the woman came running from the bed room crying and looking for the husband for help. The guy took her woman and embraced her in consolation as the couple started to sob for the victims.
“This is what I was telling you honey”, the man said as the couple sank even deeper into sorrow and sadness. “that is our country”, the man added as the woman said “I am sorry”. The following day, the couple never went to work. They went to a psychologist for therapy and they were given three days off duty to recuperate. They called KSB with their story as part of the “healing process”. It was a moment of emotional crisis for many Kenya-Stockholmers.
Okoth Osewe
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I just recently watched this video. I’ve seen many horrible things online but this was by far the worst. I’m still very bothered by it after 3 days. Those poor poor people. I can only pray the people that did this will suffer their own everlasting pain.
kenyan lets embrace God’s love so that we can change & love each other.