Kenyan Tea Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever For Failing to Protect Them From Attacks
Tea pluckers say the brutal attacks were "foreseeable" but the household-goods giant failed to protect them.
Representative image. A boy standing by houses on a tea plantation near Nairob, Kenya. Photo: Bryon Lippincott/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0
World17/Mar/2021
At least four men armed with machetes and clubs broke into Anne Johnsonâs home. They forced her husband and 11-year-old son into the bedroom and kept Anne and her teenage daughters in a separate room. To this day, she doesnât know for certain if the men who raped her, her husband, and her daughters were her coworkers. “They spoke the local language,” Anne testified, but “they blindfolded us so we could not see who they were.”