Report: Dozens killed, vanished as Kenya fights extremists
NAIROBI, Kenya — A human rights organization says at least 81 extremism suspects have been killed illegally or forced to disappear by Kenyan police after a series of attacks.
Haki Africa said in a report Wednesday it had documented 22 deaths as a result of excessive force in police operations, four deaths in police custody, 31 extrajudicial killings and 24 enforced disappearances.
Hussien Khalid, the group’s executive director, says the report covers a period starting in 2012, when the government says the Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group began retaliatory attacks against Kenya for sending troops to Somalia in late 2011 to fight it.