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Tuesday 08 Dec 2015 - 16:33 Makkah mean time-26-2-1437
Pic: Anadolu Agency
Nairobi (IINA) – The discovery of yet another alleged mass grave in Kenya’s Muslim-majority North Eastern Province has sent shockwaves throughout the country, where Kenyan security forces are already facing criticism for their suspected roles in extrajudicial killings, Anadolu Agency reported.
On Sunday, Kenyan security forces discovered at least a dozen graves on the outskirts of Mandera town in the province while they were searching for a missing mother of five children.
A senior senator from the area and local residents alleged that the graves in fact belonged to Muslim victims killed by Kenyan security forces themselves.
“One of the women [victims at the gravesite] has been identified; she was arrested by people who introduced themselves as the Kenya police, I really don’t know who is fooling who, but as Muslims we are living in fear,” Abdi Fatah, a resident from Mandera town, told Anadolu Agency via telephone.
“We have been crying that we are being targeted, but report after report, no one comes to our aid; all the human rights groups have said that this is happening,” he added.
Mandera Senator Billow Kerrow also strongly condemned the murders, dismissing security forces' assessments of “clan conflicts” as a possible reason behind the killings.
“The discovery of mass graves in Mandera yesterday evening is a clear indication that this evil process of extermination of suspects in total disregard of due process is the norm rather the exception,” he said.
This is not the first time that state security forces have been put on the spot for allegedly carrying out extrajudicial killings; some key findings from a 2014 UN report also noted that since 2010 there have been a large number of extrajudicial killings in the country.
In August, Muslim human rights activists also released reports saying that over 100 young Muslim men went missing in Mandera County alone after they were arrested by security officers; most are feared to have been killed off extrajudicially.
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