Next machetes, then machineguns?
1. Mai 2009 | Von atsil2 | Kategorie:English Read the WorldThe recent shooting of two prominent Kenyan human-rights campaigners in broad daylight in Nairobi, the country’s capital, has darkened the national mood.
The campaigners, Kamau King’ara and Paul Oulo, had been investigating death squads widely thought to be linked to senior politicians(…)
Last month Philip Alston, a UN investigator, published a report on extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions in Kenya.
Continue reading: Next machetes, then machineguns? (economist.com)
More information:
- UN condemns executions carried out by Kenyan police (guardian.co.uk)
- UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions (unhcr.org)
- Kenya: Killing of Activists Needs Independent Inquiry (africog.org)
- Press Statement by Prof. Philip Alston on his Mission to Kenya 16-25 February 2009 (unhcr.ch) (PDF)
- Project on Extrajudicial Executions (extrajudicialexecutions.org)
- Philip Alston (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Kenya Civil Society Communiqué on Extra-judicial Killings and the State the Nation (marsgroupkenya.org) (PDF)
