Kenya: Mount Elgon Crisis Was Worse Than Pev - Report

28 October 2011

A Human Rights Watch report released in Nairobi yesterday calls on the ICC to investigate and prosecute the Kenyan military's involvement in the Mt Elgon operation against a militia that terrorised residents. The report said there has been no credible investigations into the atrocities committed in Mt Elgon three and half years after the operation.

"Despite reports by five different agencies that the military committed crimes against humanity, not a single action has ever been taken," Neela Gholshal, a researcher with the rights watch in the Africa division said.

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