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Ex-Boyfriend Who Set Olympic Runner On Fire Pictured As Her Daughter Shares Chilling Details
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The daughter of Rebecca Cheptegei, the Ugandan Olympic marathon runner who was doused in petrol and set ablaze by her ex-boyfriend, revealed the harrowing events she witnessed before her mother passed away.
Media outlets have also released the first picture of the brutal attacker, Dickson Ndiema, who also suffered burns during the attack and is recovering from the incident.
Highlights
- Rebecca Cheptegei, Ugandan Olympic runner, was set on fire by her ex-boyfriend over a land dispute.
- The attacker, Dickson Ndiema, suffered burns and is currently recovering from the incident.
- The Olympic runner's daughter witnessed the horrific assault and tried to save her mother but was kicked away.
- Rebecca tragically succumbed to her injuries on the morning of September 5.
The 33-year-old Ugandan athlete was set on fire in the small town of Endebess, Kenya, during a disagreement over the land bought by her parents.
Officials revealed that the accused ex-boyfriend had entered her property on Sunday, September 1, while Rebecca was at church with her two children, aged 12 and 13. He was allegedly armed with a can of petrol.
Rebecca Cheptegei’s daughter shared gut-wrenching details about watching her mother being set on fire by her ex-boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema
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When the Olympic runner returned, the pair were locked in an argument before the enraged boyfriend doused her in petrol and watched her burn.
One of the Paris Olympic participant’s children witnessed the horrific assault and tried to run to her mother’s rescue, but Dickson “kicked” her away.
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“He kicked me while I tried to run to the rescue of my mother,” she was quoted telling The Standard.
Media outlets have released the first image of the alleged attacker, who also suffered burns during the horrific incident
Image credits: Dickson Ndiema
“I immediately cried out for help, attracting a neighbour who tried to extinguish the flames with water, but it was not possible,” the bereaved daughter said.
Neighbors rushed to the scene and extinguished the flames, which left both the attacker and the victim severely injured.
The long-distance runner was rushed to the hospital with more than 80% of her body covered in burns, while her violent ex-partner had burns over 30% of his body.
On the morning of September 5, Dr. Owen Menach from the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret confirmed that the Olympic runner had succumbed to her injuries.
“He kicked me while I tried to run to the rescue of my mother,” the bereaved daughter said. “I immediately cried out for help”
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Image credits: Dickson Ndiema
“It is sad that we lost the patient early this morning after all organs failed at about 5 a.m. while we were doing our best to save her life,” the doctor said.
Mzee Cheptegei, the victim’s father, said Rebecca and Dickson had been just friends for a while.
“They were just friends and I wonder why he wanted to take away things belonging to my daughter,” the father told The Star.
The athlete competed in the 10,000 m race at the Paris Olympics this year and finished in 44th place in the marathon.
In 2022, she won a gold medal at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Netizens were shocked to see the news that the Olympic athlete tragically lost her life
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Kavin 3 months ago
I understand where you are coming from, but I still don't think it's right to call 90% of men "Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!" for what the 1% do. What if someone called 90% of woman lying, cheating, sadistic pieces of shït for what one woman did? btw I am definitely not equating cheating and burning someone to death, just trying to prove a point.
Load More Replies... dremetrius 3 months ago
"What if someone called 90% of woman lying, cheating, sadistic pieces of shït for what one woman did?" 'If'? There are multiple entire men's movements out there who push that narrative *and* actively recruit young men.
Breadcrumb. 3 months ago
A society and culture that allows the abuse and basically ownership of women is part of the threat as well.
Emie N. 3 months ago
Well Kavin the problem is that TOO many men throughout history have been the violent oppressors and monsters in society against women for centuries. In a way that women themselves have never done in return. That's the issue right there.
Kavin 3 months ago
I agree with that. Throughout history men have been violent. But I don't think it's fair to say that 90% of men in the 21 century are dangerous because our ancestors were. It is a different time now, and I think that less than 10% of men are dangerous right now. Reverse sexism doesn't fix sexism.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
Same logic as the andrew tate boys. Exact same logic. "In a way that women themselves have never done in return" STOP infantalizing women. THEY SHAPED HISTORY AS MUCH AS MEN DID! VERY insulting to an entire gender to say that. We had women who boiled others alive in history. We have women who are in the ISS now. Cherry pick all you want. But you will not spread the redpill in front of me like this! Women and men are equal in EVERYTHING!
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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"comment that was hidden" The Andrew Tate incel in you is showing. Stop it now when you still can. Or else you end up like the men you hate so much. As for this guy i would burn him myself if i could get my hands on him. I wont wait for a potential hell.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago (edited)
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God the incels upvoting this and who will probably downvote me for calling it out. This is one man's doing. Not all women are parasite like the andrew tate boys say. Not all men are bear like you say. This guy tho is definity NOT human.
Tamra 3 months ago
Ben, I understand your dislike of LapCat's comment. I really do. But I feel, in this case, it's important to read beyond her words. This story has deeply, deeply affected her and has resurfaced centuries, if not millenia, of collective trauma that women have endured: women being subjugated and silenced, used as property, raped, beaten, treated as inferior objects, stalked and terrorized. And still it happens worldwide in this year of 2024.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
You removed the comment which is good. That is the first step. If the hatred you have is originating from trauma. The way to deal with it IS NOT by making more hate. Please before you go deeper into the redpill. Do what ppl need to do when they start realizing they have a problem. Please go to therapy and deal with this in healthy way before you harm more ppl. Imagine little innocent boys reading your original comment... That is not ok in my book.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
I am posting it on Reddit. Trauma is no justification for spreading hatred for an entire gender. I will not accept this excuse for racism or for misogyny. I will not accept it for misandry. The fact that i am being downvoted and ppl trying to bully me off means that i did INDEED stumble on a pit of hatred that can cause ALOT of damage not just to the subjects of the hatred men in this case. But to the redpilled people themselves. I am passionate about this because i know if more ppl like me called out this hatred ppl like andrew tate would never rise to power. I don't know the history of this person. All i know is the hatred they are spreading. It needs to be dealt with.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
The fact that every single comment i posted got buried is proof that this is some cult mob of hatred that needs to be dismantled. It is the REDPILL! Have i not been bullied into shutting up? With all my comments removed? Is that acceptable in BP? Nah you might be ok with it But i am not. I will expose this WHENEVER i see it. Because someone needs to do it. I will accept all the bullying i don't care.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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Involuntary celibate is the original word. It now represents people who hate the other gender. Incel men JUST HATE WOMEN. that is what the word means. I am extending it to women who hate men. Other peopel say femcel... I dont really see why we should seperate the genders there. It is the same toxic hate. if you brand 90% iof men as predators and 90% of women as parasites. YOU ARE EVIL. That is what i believe and will not be bullied into submission. That is probably what the andrew tate boys did to every man who challanged them. And it worked on them. That is how these hate cults spread. Cant you see it?
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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U know what i wish you share this outside of your tiny world bubble. Go to another county in a bar or coffe shop somewhere and say this to the random women and men you meet. Say "Fück 90% of men!!! 🤬 Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!!" and see their raction. or better yet just post it on Reddit. It might show up again on bored panda!
Ben Aziza 3 months ago (edited)
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"Fück 90% of men!!! 🤬 Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!!" This is what you said. OWN UP TO IT. Please leave the redpill! Do yourself a favor. You can keep calling me names you can try to gaslight me with s**t like "nobody is taking you seriously" but i wont work. I know evil when i see it. I fight it when i see it. be it hatred towards women. Or men. or any gender. I did not shut up when the tate boys wanted me to shut up. i will not shut up now. because i see the same exact thing.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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7 upvotes for now about a post that includes this phrase "Fück 90% of men!!! 🤬 Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!!" THAT IS NOT OKAY! IS that what BP stands for?
Ben Aziza 3 months ago (edited)
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I remember you talking so highly about your father who adopted you. 9/10 chance. That s**t was said about him. "Fück 90% of men!!! 🤬 Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!!" That is what this insane person is trying to spread! And she is using the tragic burning of an innocent woman to fuel this hatred of all men i mean 90% as if there is a fuckign difference.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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The Andrew Tate incel in you is showing. Stop it now when you still can. Or else you end up like the men hate so much. As for this guy i would burn him myself if i could get my hands on him. I wont wait for a potential hell.
Svenne O'Lotta 3 months ago (edited)
You're not wanted or needed in this discussion. Get the fúck out of here and grow some empathy, you absolute disaster of a human.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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"Comment that was hidden" Judging from the down votes misandry is apparently endorsed here on BP! Good to know that. I wont shut up about it even if you bury my comments i will post them again. ps: i am not defending the animal that burned the poor woman in the post. I am attacking andrew tate like people called lapcat. and every one who supports misandry or misogyny in any forms "Incel gender warriors" i call them.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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"you absolute disaster of a human." Also did you miss the part where i said i would burn alive that man who buned the poor woman? Are you hiding behding the accusation of lack of empathy to justrfy you hatred of men? Nah that s**t wont work on me. And i will keep posting it so other people can see this SINISTER hatred and stop it.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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Imagine you saying that to my 6 year old nephew that 90% of men are predators. So You can grow some empathy and know you are following a cult mob of haters. I will not... i hate misandry and misogyny equally and i will not let you use the insane actions of one unhinged individual to brand 90% of men like andrew tate brands 90% of women. it is the same toxicity. Keep down voting me and i will keep riposting every buried comment and i will report any comment spreading misandry and misogyny as hate speech. because if more men did that andrew tate would have been nipped in the bud.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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I will be posting this on Reddit i think. Under am i the a*****e. then we will see if "I don’t think a single person reading your comments is taking you seriously, btw."
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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keep trying to bully me i will keep calling out misandry and mysogeny whenever i see it. You cannot shut me up. Because i know you will hurt innocent people with this type of cult mob hatred.
klove62 3 months ago (edited)
Sad that you resort to calling someone mentally ill. I don’t think there was anything wrong with what Kavin said initially. I’m a woman. I dealt with narcissistic abuse for years. I STILL think that the majority of men are kind. What happened was horrible! But making a blanket statement like you did makes no sense.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
The fact that all my comments are hidden simply for pointing sexism shows me that there is a cult of hatred on this website. I will not shut up about it. I will keep exposin this dark secret in BP. Sexism is NEVER acceptable no matter the gender. Phobia is NEVER acceptable based on things people cannot control. I will not sit here and be insulted simply because i was born with a penis. I did this when faced with the tate boys. And i will do it here. I will not be bullied off by toxic people. Imagine these types of people raisin boys. It scares me.
Kavin 3 months ago
I understand where you are coming from, but I still don't think it's right to call 90% of men "Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!" for what the 1% do. What if someone called 90% of woman lying, cheating, sadistic pieces of shït for what one woman did? btw I am definitely not equating cheating and burning someone to death, just trying to prove a point.
Load More Replies... dremetrius 3 months ago
"What if someone called 90% of woman lying, cheating, sadistic pieces of shït for what one woman did?" 'If'? There are multiple entire men's movements out there who push that narrative *and* actively recruit young men.
Breadcrumb. 3 months ago
A society and culture that allows the abuse and basically ownership of women is part of the threat as well.
Emie N. 3 months ago
Well Kavin the problem is that TOO many men throughout history have been the violent oppressors and monsters in society against women for centuries. In a way that women themselves have never done in return. That's the issue right there.
Kavin 3 months ago
I agree with that. Throughout history men have been violent. But I don't think it's fair to say that 90% of men in the 21 century are dangerous because our ancestors were. It is a different time now, and I think that less than 10% of men are dangerous right now. Reverse sexism doesn't fix sexism.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
Same logic as the andrew tate boys. Exact same logic. "In a way that women themselves have never done in return" STOP infantalizing women. THEY SHAPED HISTORY AS MUCH AS MEN DID! VERY insulting to an entire gender to say that. We had women who boiled others alive in history. We have women who are in the ISS now. Cherry pick all you want. But you will not spread the redpill in front of me like this! Women and men are equal in EVERYTHING!
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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"comment that was hidden" The Andrew Tate incel in you is showing. Stop it now when you still can. Or else you end up like the men you hate so much. As for this guy i would burn him myself if i could get my hands on him. I wont wait for a potential hell.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago (edited)
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God the incels upvoting this and who will probably downvote me for calling it out. This is one man's doing. Not all women are parasite like the andrew tate boys say. Not all men are bear like you say. This guy tho is definity NOT human.
Tamra 3 months ago
Ben, I understand your dislike of LapCat's comment. I really do. But I feel, in this case, it's important to read beyond her words. This story has deeply, deeply affected her and has resurfaced centuries, if not millenia, of collective trauma that women have endured: women being subjugated and silenced, used as property, raped, beaten, treated as inferior objects, stalked and terrorized. And still it happens worldwide in this year of 2024.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
You removed the comment which is good. That is the first step. If the hatred you have is originating from trauma. The way to deal with it IS NOT by making more hate. Please before you go deeper into the redpill. Do what ppl need to do when they start realizing they have a problem. Please go to therapy and deal with this in healthy way before you harm more ppl. Imagine little innocent boys reading your original comment... That is not ok in my book.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
I am posting it on Reddit. Trauma is no justification for spreading hatred for an entire gender. I will not accept this excuse for racism or for misogyny. I will not accept it for misandry. The fact that i am being downvoted and ppl trying to bully me off means that i did INDEED stumble on a pit of hatred that can cause ALOT of damage not just to the subjects of the hatred men in this case. But to the redpilled people themselves. I am passionate about this because i know if more ppl like me called out this hatred ppl like andrew tate would never rise to power. I don't know the history of this person. All i know is the hatred they are spreading. It needs to be dealt with.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
The fact that every single comment i posted got buried is proof that this is some cult mob of hatred that needs to be dismantled. It is the REDPILL! Have i not been bullied into shutting up? With all my comments removed? Is that acceptable in BP? Nah you might be ok with it But i am not. I will expose this WHENEVER i see it. Because someone needs to do it. I will accept all the bullying i don't care.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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Involuntary celibate is the original word. It now represents people who hate the other gender. Incel men JUST HATE WOMEN. that is what the word means. I am extending it to women who hate men. Other peopel say femcel... I dont really see why we should seperate the genders there. It is the same toxic hate. if you brand 90% iof men as predators and 90% of women as parasites. YOU ARE EVIL. That is what i believe and will not be bullied into submission. That is probably what the andrew tate boys did to every man who challanged them. And it worked on them. That is how these hate cults spread. Cant you see it?
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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U know what i wish you share this outside of your tiny world bubble. Go to another county in a bar or coffe shop somewhere and say this to the random women and men you meet. Say "Fück 90% of men!!! 🤬 Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!!" and see their raction. or better yet just post it on Reddit. It might show up again on bored panda!
Ben Aziza 3 months ago (edited)
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"Fück 90% of men!!! 🤬 Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!!" This is what you said. OWN UP TO IT. Please leave the redpill! Do yourself a favor. You can keep calling me names you can try to gaslight me with s**t like "nobody is taking you seriously" but i wont work. I know evil when i see it. I fight it when i see it. be it hatred towards women. Or men. or any gender. I did not shut up when the tate boys wanted me to shut up. i will not shut up now. because i see the same exact thing.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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7 upvotes for now about a post that includes this phrase "Fück 90% of men!!! 🤬 Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!!" THAT IS NOT OKAY! IS that what BP stands for?
Ben Aziza 3 months ago (edited)
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I remember you talking so highly about your father who adopted you. 9/10 chance. That s**t was said about him. "Fück 90% of men!!! 🤬 Egotistical, fragile, and DANGEROUS pieces of shït!!!" That is what this insane person is trying to spread! And she is using the tragic burning of an innocent woman to fuel this hatred of all men i mean 90% as if there is a fuckign difference.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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The Andrew Tate incel in you is showing. Stop it now when you still can. Or else you end up like the men hate so much. As for this guy i would burn him myself if i could get my hands on him. I wont wait for a potential hell.
Svenne O'Lotta 3 months ago (edited)
You're not wanted or needed in this discussion. Get the fúck out of here and grow some empathy, you absolute disaster of a human.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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"Comment that was hidden" Judging from the down votes misandry is apparently endorsed here on BP! Good to know that. I wont shut up about it even if you bury my comments i will post them again. ps: i am not defending the animal that burned the poor woman in the post. I am attacking andrew tate like people called lapcat. and every one who supports misandry or misogyny in any forms "Incel gender warriors" i call them.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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"you absolute disaster of a human." Also did you miss the part where i said i would burn alive that man who buned the poor woman? Are you hiding behding the accusation of lack of empathy to justrfy you hatred of men? Nah that s**t wont work on me. And i will keep posting it so other people can see this SINISTER hatred and stop it.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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Imagine you saying that to my 6 year old nephew that 90% of men are predators. So You can grow some empathy and know you are following a cult mob of haters. I will not... i hate misandry and misogyny equally and i will not let you use the insane actions of one unhinged individual to brand 90% of men like andrew tate brands 90% of women. it is the same toxicity. Keep down voting me and i will keep riposting every buried comment and i will report any comment spreading misandry and misogyny as hate speech. because if more men did that andrew tate would have been nipped in the bud.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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I will be posting this on Reddit i think. Under am i the a*****e. then we will see if "I don’t think a single person reading your comments is taking you seriously, btw."
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
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keep trying to bully me i will keep calling out misandry and mysogeny whenever i see it. You cannot shut me up. Because i know you will hurt innocent people with this type of cult mob hatred.
klove62 3 months ago (edited)
Sad that you resort to calling someone mentally ill. I don’t think there was anything wrong with what Kavin said initially. I’m a woman. I dealt with narcissistic abuse for years. I STILL think that the majority of men are kind. What happened was horrible! But making a blanket statement like you did makes no sense.
Ben Aziza 3 months ago
The fact that all my comments are hidden simply for pointing sexism shows me that there is a cult of hatred on this website. I will not shut up about it. I will keep exposin this dark secret in BP. Sexism is NEVER acceptable no matter the gender. Phobia is NEVER acceptable based on things people cannot control. I will not sit here and be insulted simply because i was born with a penis. I did this when faced with the tate boys. And i will do it here. I will not be bullied off by toxic people. Imagine these types of people raisin boys. It scares me.
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