KNCHR POSITION ON AMNESTY FOR ALLEGED PERPETRATORS OF POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE
I. Introduction
Recently, a debate in Kenya has raged regarding whether persons arrested in the wake of the post election violence should be prosecuted or granted amnesty. These persons comprise mainly youths from Rift Valley, Nyanza, Coast, Central and Nairobi Provinces who are alleged to have committed [...]
MINUTES OF THE CCP MEETING HELD AT OXFAM OFFICES, SHELTER AFRIQUE HOUSE ON 16/05/08
CORE CORE GROUP MEMBER PRESENT
1. Amb. Bethuel Kiplagat
Matters Arising
Security at Internally Displaced Camps
Mathare
Security is a major threat in Mathare and as it is, there are gangs from both the Kikuyu and Luo communities terrorising residents. The gang leaders are [...]
KENYA: IDPs in Central reluctant to return to Rift Valley
Photo: Waweru Mugo/IRIN
Samuel Ngumo Kamau and wife, Teresia Muthoni, and their three-week old baby
RURING’U, 23 May 2008 (IRIN) - Samuel Ngumo Kamau cannot dispel the images of burning houses and Kenyans killing each other from his mind – a key factor in his [...]
KENYA: Concern over increase in illegal arms after post-poll violence
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
A boy plays with mud pistols in Nairobi’s Mathare slum: The post-election violence in January and February led to an increase in illegal guns in circulation across the country
NAIROBI, 26 May 2008 (IRIN) - Very little has been done to check [...]
PRELIMINARY REPORT OF MEDICO-LEGAL INVESTIGATION OF TORTURE BY THE MILLITARY AT MOUNT ELGON
“OPERATION OKOA MAISHA”
April 2008
An Investigative report by the
Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU)
Released by:
International Commission of Jurists-Kenya Section
Child Legal Action Network
IMLU
Executive Summary
Since the January post election violence and subsequent mediation [...]
Date: 24 Apr 2008
Women still a target as Kenya’s social wounds gape
By Lisa Ntungicimpaye
NAIROBI, April 24 (Reuters) - More than three months have passed since youths stormed Mary’s home in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, slashing her leg with a machete as she fled.
But the single mother of five still shudders at the thought the men [...]
Summary
The scale and speed of the violence that engulfed Kenya following the controversial presidential election of December 27, 2007 shocked both Kenyans and the world at large. Two months of bloodshed left over 1,000 dead and up to 500,000 internally displaced persons in a country viewed as a bastion of economic and political stability in [...]
Armed And Dangerous
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
NEWS
22 February 2008
Posted to the web 22 February 2008
Nairobi
Kenya is at risk of plunging into a new wave of violence, despite progress in negotiations to end a political crisis, because several armed groups are mobilising on all sides of the country’s ethno-political divisions, according to the International Crisis Group [...]
IRIN - Kenya ReliefWeb Reuters Pambazuka
