Kenya: Amnesty International Condemns Killings in Post-Election Violence

press release

Amnesty International today strongly condemned the increasing number of politically-motivated killings of civilians by groups of armed youths in different parts of Kenya during the last few days and expressed particular concern at the developing ethnic-related nature of the violence.

Amnesty International called on the Kenyan government and political party leaders to take all possible measures to ensure an immediate halt to the violence and to commit themselves publicly to the respect and protection of the human rights of all citizens.

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