Daisy Onyango hid from the gunmen for 12 hours as they went from dormitory to dormitory at Garissa University, killing her fellow students by the score. From a window she could spot Kenyan soldiers. When, she asked herself, would they be coming to save her? As dusk fell that day, April 2nd, they finally stormed the residence. Within minutes, they had shot dead the students' tormentors. Apparently only four-strong, they were members of the Shabab, a fanatical Islamist group that seeks to rule over Somalia and has terrorised neighbouring Kenya. It justifies its carnage on the ground that the Kenyan government has been fighting it in Somalia. Garissa is a dusty little town in a poor ethnic-Somali area 145 kilometres (90 miles) from Kenya's border with Somalia. Most of the students at the new university are, like the 20-year-old Ms Onyango, from other parts of the country.
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