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Kenya: Anti-Terror Unit Blamed for Human Rights Violations
CAJ News, 18 August 2014
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) has blamed the counterterrorism forces for killings and disappearances of locals, among other violations. Read more »
Kenya Anti-Terror Police Accused of Abuse
Human Rights Watch has accused the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit of carrying out a series of extra-judicial killings, arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of terror suspects in the country.
Youth clash with police outside the militant Masjid Musa Mosque after the death of Sheikh Aboud Rogo in 2012, accused by Kenya and the US of terrorism activities (file photo).
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