John Anthony Kaiser (November 29, 1932 – August 23, 2000) was a Roman Catholic priest and Mill Hill father from Perham, Minnesota, US, who was assassinated near his mission at Morendat, near Naivasha, Rift Valley Province, Kenya.

[7][10] Refugees fled to the camp as a result of tribal violence, armed gangs driving them from their homes and then torching the buildings.

[18] In public, sworn testimony, Kaiser fingered prominent cabinet ministers in the incumbent government,[5] as well as the then-President, Daniel arap Moi.

[5] Kaiser briefly went into hiding in Kisii[24] before he was granted a new work permit, but only after intervention by the US Ambassador Johnnie Carson[5] and Bishop Colin Davis of Ngong.

[25] In March, 2000, the independent Law Society of Kenya presented Kaiser with its annual Human Rights Award, for his public testimony before the Akiwumi Commission and his support of the two girls.

Instead, I trust in a good guardian angel and in the action of grace.On August 23, 2000, Kaiser was shot in the back of the head at close range with a shotgun.

[26] His body was found at 6 am[5] the next day beneath two acacia trees[27] by a butcher named George,[28] at Morendat junction on the Nakuru-Naivasha road in Nakuru county, Kenya.

[37] However, in August 2011, the Kenya Human Rights Commission declared that Dr. Frank Njenga intentionally deceived and misled the FBI by fabricating a false report to make them believe that Father Kaiser, a devout Catholic priest, was suffering from mental illness and had committed suicide.

[38] Finally, in August 2013, a report published by The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya officially confirmed that Father John Anthony Kaiser's death was a political assassination.

[30] The papal nuncio, Giovanni Tonucci, said at Kaiser's funeral in the Nairobi basilica, "The church, through pitiless violence, has once more been deprived of one of her ministers.

Since then, the Kenyan National Human Rights Commission posthumously honored Kaiser with its 2006 Milele (Lifetime) Achievement Award.

[44] Correspondent Carol Marin and producer Peter W. Klein of the American news program 60 Minutes conducted an investigation into the death of Kaiser, which put pressure on the international community to solve the mystery of how he died.

[46] The presiding magistrate, Maureen Odero, said on August 1, 2007, that Kaiser was murdered, ruled that the "Suicide Theory" was based on a preconceived notion, but stated that "she could not – on the basis of evidence tabled before her in the inquest – point out with certainty who the priest's killers were".

[49] In 2011, W. W. Norton & Company published the book You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya, an account of Father Kaiser's life and death by investigative journalist Christopher Goffard.