Inside Kenya's Death Squads

Publisher:: Al Jazeera English
Publication Date:: 7 December 2014
Tags:: Kenya, Governance, Legal and Judicial Affairs

For the first time members of Kenya's counter-terrorism police admit to "eliminating" suspected Muslim radicals. Speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, officers from four units of Kenya's counter-terrorism apparatus admitted the police assassinate suspects on government orders. They claim that the order to assassinate is made by the National Security Council, a body chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta. The film examines how extra-judicial killings are seemingly becoming normalized, thirteen years after the so-called 'War on Terror' was declared.

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