Monday, December 8, 2014

Kenya's Counterterrorism Police Admit To Running Death Squads Targeting Militants That Have Been Identified By Western Intelligence



Exclusive: Kenyan Counterterrorism Police Admit To Extrajudicial Killings -- Al Jazeera

Kenyan officers suggest program in which terrorism suspects were killed without trial on basis of Western intelligence

Kenyan police have assassinated nearly 500 terrorism suspects as part of an extrajudicial killing program supported by intelligence provided by Israel and the United Kingdom, an Al Jazeera investigation has revealed.

Officers from four units of Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) said that police assassinated terrorist suspects on government orders.

The police killings, according to an ATPU officer, were ordered by Kenya’s National Security Council and run into the hundreds every year. “Day in, day out, you hear of eliminating suspects," the officer said.

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More News On Kenya's Counterterrorism Police Admitting To Running Death Squads

Kenya Security Assassinating Islamist Militants, al-Jazeera Says -- Bloomberg
Inside the Kenyan police units accused of hunting down and assassinating terror suspects in the country after 60 people are killed in two separate attacks -- Daily Mail
Kenya's officers admit to to illegal killing of suspects -- Ahram Online
Britain accused of complicity in Kenyan death squad terrorism suspect killings -- The Guardian
Kenyan elimination programs: UK accused of complicity -- RT
The trap of insecurity: Extrajudicial killings in Kenya -- Abdullahi Boru Halakhe, Al Jazeera

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