MT ELGON, KENYA, JUNE 2011: Widows of SLDF leadership as well as from the civilian population photographed in an area notorious for conflict in the tumultous Mt Elgon region of Kenya, a place of severe land clashes between the Sobot Land Defence Force and Kenyan Armed Forces, June 11, 2011. This is a ongoing land conflict, the latest round instigated by in 2006 by local men who formed the SLDF militia in order to protect land which the government wanted to divide up and resettle for redistribution, thus threatening long established land ownership and protocols in the area. The SLDF used extreme violence as both a recruitment tool and an intimidation technique on local residents who did not want to support their movement. The Kenyan army then came in and overcompensated, both the SLDF and the Kenyan Army and Police inflicted severe casualties on the residents of Mt Elgon, with torture, rape and multiple killings a feature of the conflict through 2007 and 2008. Over 300 disapearences of Mt Elgon residents took place, with bodies dumpted in remote forest, mass graves and military interference ensuring that many families to this day have no idea what happened to their relatives. The Government has made the obtaining of Death Certificates very difficult to come by. Seven years must pass before a missing person can be declared dead in Kenya. As a result widows have been unable to claim insurance, land rights, school fees and bursaries of any kind, causing entire families to suffer long after the official ceasefire in the Mt Elgon conflict. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Reportage for Human Rights Watch.)