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  2. Alleged killer of Ugandan Olympian dies from burns, hospital says

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    Cheptegei, who finished 44th in Paris, is the third elite sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021. Her death has put the spotlight on domestic violence in the East African country ...

  3. Man accused of killing Olympic runner in fire attack dies of ...

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    Cheptegi, a member of the Uganda People's Defense Force, is to be buried on Sept. 14 with military honors in Bukwo, Uganda, with dignitaries from both Kenya and Uganda in attendance. Her death ...

  4. Slain Ugandan Olympian buried with full military honours

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    KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after allegedly being doused in petrol and set alight by her former partner, was buried Saturday with full military honours at ...

  5. Rebecca Cheptegei - Wikipedia

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    Rebecca Cheptegei was born on the Kenyan side of the Kenya–Uganda border on 22 February 1991 [1] [2] [3] to Joseph and Agnes Cheptegei [4] and was the second of 13 siblings. [5] Her ancestral village was Bukwo in Uganda. She later moved to the village of Chepkum in Kenya [1] and bought property there to be closer to athletic training centres. [6]

  6. Ex-partner who killed Ugandan athlete dies from burns - AOL

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  7. Benjamin Kiplagat - Wikipedia

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    He was again affected by malaria, and a boil on his leg, in 2010, but again lowered the Ugandan record to 8:03.81. He finished 4th at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. [1] Kiplagat was reported to have been stabbed to death, after his body was found in a car on 31 December 2023, near Eldoret in Kenya.

  8. Capital punishment in Uganda - Wikipedia

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    The challenge Kigula and her attorneys presented on behalf of all Ugandan death row inmates proved successful; in 2005, Uganda's Constitutional Court abolished the mandatory death penalty for murder, finding it to be a "violation of fundamental human rights" and putting an inmate's right to a fair trial in jeopardy due to eliminating the ...

  9. Ugandan Olympian dies after allegedly being set on fire by ...

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    Tirop's death in October 2021 sparked protests that were amplified when hundreds of athletes took to the streets of the town of Iten calling for stricter laws and gender-based outreach centers.