A group of 867 internally displaced persons (IDPs), forced out of Kyeni Forest in Thika District in early June and who have been living in a roadside camp in Huruma, Thika, since, have complained that they were harassed, intimidated and beaten by forestry officials into leaving their forest homes of eight years...The IDPs have claimed that illegal logging in Kyeni was taking place with the tolerance of forestry officials, while a Thika District forest officer told IRIN that the farmers were evicted because they were residing there illegally