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Friday, 8 July 2016

Police 'death squads'. Kenya

The non-governmental watchdog Independent Medico- Legal Unit (IMLU) says the police killed 97 people in
2015 alone.
More recently the group says eight suspected robbers, aged between 15 and 26, were shot at close range in April, either while kneeling or lying on the ground.
Police crackdowns in the fight against Islamist militants have targeted predominantly Muslim communities
around the country in the aftermath of major attacks.
Last year, a report by the Kenya's official rights body described it as "fighting terror with terror" and reported 25 killings.
Between 2012 and 2014, three prominent clerics believed to have had links to al-Shabab were killed in the coastal city of Mombasa. Their supporters say police "death squads" killed them.
Kenyans hope the government takes up arms to a certain the citizens security.

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