Kenyans Using the #147NotJustaNumber Hashtag to Honor Terror Victims

Kenyans have launched a social media campaign to remember those who died at last week’s massacre at Garissa University College in eastern Kenya, where terrorist al-Shabaab gunmen killed 148 people, most of them students aged between 19 and 23. The powerful campaign aims to "humanize the victims of terror"

By using the hashtag #147notjustanumber, people are posting pictures of loved ones to Twitter and often sharing biographical details to give faces to the people behind the grim, anonymous death toll.

Among the many heartbreaking stories we learnt are that of a 22-year-old Gideon Kirui, whose whole village had raised money for him to go to university. There is also Selpher Wandia, 21, who dreamed of becoming a teacher, and Peter Masinde, 32, an officer who was shot as he entered the campus. He leaves behind a pregnant wife.

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