воскресенье, 4 марта 2012 г.

Kenyan police blamed for postelection deaths

Kenyan police killed nearly half the people who died in postelection violence earlier this year, a human rights organization told an investigatory committee Thursday.

The Independent Medical Legal Unit said 80 post-mortems conducted randomly in mortuaries around the country showed that 43 per cent of the victims had died of bullet wounds while the rest had been burned, wounded with machetes or bludgeoned.

Almost all the police were armed with guns but few, if any, protesters were seen with them. The police deny using excessive force.

Testifying to the five-member Commission of Inquiry, the rights organization's program manager, Joan Nyanyuki, …

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