A few missionaries with vehicles broke the curfew to bring victims from the airstrip to a hospital. One missionary was caught. She was arrested and declared persona non grata in Kenya. The wives and children of the murdered Somali men now live as squatters in a bola surrounding the Catholic Mission, a lively reminder to the Somali majority that they live at the mercy of the Kenyan government. Much violence perpetrated by the Kenyan government does not involve guns, however.
Critics complain that the country slid quickly into a neo-colonial pattern.
Foreign companies continued as the major investors in the country, sharing profits with a new native Kenyan bourgeoisie. With politics seen as an avenue to personal profit, corruption took hold at all levels. Nine-tenths had been skimmed off as the rice passed through many hands and way stations on the way to her clinic. Another day, local prison wardens came to request from Teresanne a long list of medications, which the government had not supplied them. When I spoke to her and to Kenyans about supporting Jubilee 2000, the churches' effort toward debt forgiveness for the poorest countries, they cautioned that debt alleviation would be a mistake for Kenya unless tied to profound political and economic changes in the country.