Kenyan Police and Military Abuses against Ethnic Somalis
This report provides detailed documentation of human rights abuses by the Kenya Defence Forces and the Kenyan police in apparent response to a series of grenade and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks that targeted both the security forces and civilians in North Eastern province. Rather than conducting investigations to identify and apprehend the perpetrators, both the police and army responded with violent reprisals against Kenyan citizens and Somali refugees.
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ISBN: 1-56432-882-1
ISBN: 1-56432-882-1
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- Criminal Reprisals
- Glossary of Abbreviations
- Summary
- Recommendations
- Methodology
- I. Background
- II. Security Forces’ Abuses against Ethnic Somalis: Garissa, Mandera, and Wajir
- III. Police Abuses against Somali Refugees in Dadaab
- IV. Response of the Kenyan Authorities to Abuses by the Security Forces
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix I: Attacks on Kenyan Security Forces and Civilian Targets in North Eastern Province, October 2011-February 2012
- Appendix II: Human Rights Watch Letter to the Minister of State for Defence
- Appendix III: Human Rights Watch Letter to the Minister of State for Internal Security












