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KENYA-KAISER Aug-27-2007 (430 words) xxxi
Bishop, others welcome new investigation into Father Kaiser's death
By Francis Njuguna
Catholic News Service
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) -- The family and friends of Mill Hill Father John Kaiser welcomed the Kenyan government's order for fresh investigations into the death of the U.S. missionary, whose body was found in Kenya Aug. 24, 2000.
Marking the seventh anniversary of Father Kaiser's death, Bishop Peter Kairo of Nakuru, head of the Kenyan bishops' justice and peace commission, said the attorney general's Aug. 22 order "is yet another step toward the right direction."
"This will be yet another golden opportunity for us to come out and assist in discovering the killer of our brother, Father Kaiser," he said Aug. 25, addressing Catholics, human rights activists, bishops and nuns gathered to commemorate the priest's death.
Bishop Kairo expressed hope that one day the truth will prevail and the murderer be revealed. He appealed to people to volunteer any information that they may have when the investigation begins.
Father Anthony Chantry, Mill Hill superior general, said the courage with which Father Kaiser fought for justice, his indomitable spirit of service and his firm resolve to do what was right brought his life to a violent end.
"And the finest way we can remember him is for all of us to commit ourselves to play our part in seeking the truth behind his killing," he said.
The nearly four-year inquest into the death of Father Kaiser ended Aug. 1 with the ruling that his death was not suicide, but murder. The presiding magistrate recommended new investigations.
The inquest had been requested by the Kenyan bishops' conference, the family of Father Kaiser and his congregation, all of whom rejected the FBI conclusion that the priest committed suicide.
Father Kaiser, who often spoke out against government abuses, was found dead, with bullet wounds to his head, along a highway southwest of Nairobi. The first police officers on the scene thought he had been murdered, but in 2001 the FBI ruled his death a suicide, and the Kenyan government agreed.
The Kenyan bishops' conference almost immediately dismissed the FBI results and questioned why it considered the information of only the government pathologist, and not that of the three additional doctors it had sent to the scene to collect evidence.
Father Kaiser, a native of Perham, Minn., who was 67 at the time of his death, had worked in Kenya for 36 years. His advocacy for human rights led to his expulsion from the country in 1999, but the government revoked its decision after an outcry in the Kenyan media and appeals from the country's bishops.
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