Kenya: Probe All Poll Chaos Rape Allegations

29 October 2008
editorial

Nairobi — The decision by Police Commissioner Hussein Ali to set up a task force to investigate gross sexual crimes committed during the post-election violence is highly welcome.

It must have been informed by the horror expressed in the Waki Commission report on the high number of rapes that occurred during the violence, and the alleged involvement of security personnel who reportedly often joined in the gruesome orgies.

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