Britain’s military in Kenya: Allegations, immunity and a fight for justice

“Get away with it”Memusi Lochede sits on a bed as her 24-year-old daughter Chaula lies motionless on the floor of their home in Archer’s Post, in the shadow of the training grounds. A donated wheelchair sits in the corner. Her daughter’s right leg is gone; metal rods brace a body so badly injured that she struggles to hold up her head.“I have so much pain in my heart seeing my daughter in this condition,” 46-year-old Lochede tells Al Jazeera, wiping the drool from her daughter’s chin. “I feel ashamed that she needs so much help, and I don’t know how to help her.”In 2019, Chaula, then a teenager, says she was hit by a speeding BATUK vehicle while crossing the road. Her leg was amputated and, her mother says, she was left paralysed and spent nearly three years in hospital.A BATUK representative later came to see Lochede, she says.“He apologised for what happened and said they don’t want a court case and would take care of my daughter — anything she needs,” she recounts.The MOD said it “has not located a record of an approach having been made by a BATUK representative to the family.”When her daughter was discharged, BATUK paid the hospital bills — without receipts or disclosing the am...