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Human Rights Watch blames Kenyan politicians for violence
New Human Rights Watch report alleges that Kenyan politicians supported horrific violence in Kenya financially as well as strategically.
- Agencies
- Published: 13:27 March 17, 2008
Nairobi: A new report by Human Rights Watch released on Monday alleges that Kenyan politicians supported horrific violence in Kenya financially as well as strategically.
The report, holds local political leaders from pro-government and opposition parties as well as businessmen responsible for the attacks, and says they helped organize attacks against rival ethnic groups or retaliatory attacks
Police deliberately shot hundred of election protestors in Nairobi as well as other towns between late December and early January, according to the report.
In many cases, witnesses have said the police did not act based on self-defense or provocation.
The report believes that the perpetrators of the violence must be prosecuted for their actions, adding that there is no alternative to this.
About 200 victims, witnesses, perpetrators, police, magistrates, diplomats, Kenyan and international NGO staff, journalists, lawyers, businessmen, councilors, and members of parliament across the country were interviewed for the report.
Thousands of Kenyans lost their lives to the brutal violence that gripped the African nation following the controversial elections.
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