“Killings by the police in Kenya are systematic, widespread and carefully planned. They are committed at will and with utter impunity,”
Philip Alston, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings offered a stinging indictment of Kenya’s police force in a written statement at the end of a 10-day trip to the country.
A day earlier, the government-funded [...]

February 28th, 2009 | Tags: Alston's charges are likely to shake up the political debate in Kenya, from tackling corruption to prosecuting the organizers of political violence. But whether the government will choose to act on the recommendations is much less clear., whose population has grown increasingly disappointed with the government's performance on a range of issues | Category: Kenya Politics, Life and Society | Leave a comment