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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