Old British ammunition still deadly charge Kenyans

By Catherine Bond
Special to CNN.com

Lawyers from the United Kingdom are in Kenya, collecting evidence for a lawsuit against the British army. Kenyans are filing the suit, claiming that live ammunition from British army training bases have killed and injured several people, including children.

VIDEO Lawyers could sue on behalf of Kenyan village threatened by discarded British ammunition. CNN's Catherine Bond reports (July 27) Play video (QuickTime, Real or Windows Media)

Old men like Intayo Legonyia say the British army has been training here for as long as he can remember, but one memory sticks out more than most. "What I remember is my dead son," he says. "One of the bombs killed my son." His son was sixteen in 1980 when he and two friends came across what the British army calls a piece of ordnance. Only one of them survived, metal fragment remaining in his back to this day.