Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua is known, no leaf to make the mouth. So thought hardly anyone anything he Duke on Thursday at a press conference on the renowned human rights activist Oscar Kamau Kingara and organization. "The Oscar Foundation is a facade, on the Mungiki sect is money and support procured from abroad," Mutua foam, while followers of the Mungiki militia in the streets of the capital Nairobi and elsewhere in Kenya against the police and their systematic shootings demonstrated that Kingara had uncovered. A few hours after the press conference Mutuas Kingara and his colleague John Paul Oulu were shot in their car when they in broad daylight in the middle of Nairobi were stuck in traffic.
"Under the circumstances, one has to Kenya Police for the murder suspect," was the horrified UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston few hours later to tell in a statement. The Australian-man UN calls for an independent education with the help of South African and British specialists. Only a week before Alston had submitted a report on how death squads in Kenya in 2007, hundreds of Mungiki members were killed. His informants included the two human rights activists, who are now dead.
The very day that Alston presented his report, did he have been afraid. "They can monitor us and threaten witnesses, in one case, the inhabitants of an entire displaced persons camp of the threatened withdrawal of food for the event that you talk to us. "Alston said at that time also by a letter from President Mwai Kibaki, who was very worried." I can not be sure that our witnesses will remain undisturbed. "
police spokesman Eric Kiraithe dismissed yesterday Friday accuser, Kenya's police have to do with the murder. "They were criminals, the student unrest would foment." After Kingaras death, had students and security forces, street battles and delivered into the night. A student was shot by the police. Yesterday was the tense situation further.
What Kingara and Alston had revealed in their reports, is a mafia-like system in the Kenyan police. With head shots in 2007 within a few months more than 500 young men were shot. Put behind it a death squad called Kwe Kwe, "which murdered in consultation with the Police anyone who could possibly be a member of Mungiki. The Mungiki, a banned youth militia of the Kikuyu people in Kenya, to which President Kibaki belongs, are uncomfortable: the mafia-like transition, the protection money blackmailed and terror can be exercised for cash, defaulting debtors like to propose the heads. And yet, as stressed by human rights Kingara always, they too have a right to a fair trial.
(Copyright with the daily newspaper, 07/03/2009)
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