Kenya KNCHR Report on Extra Judicial Killings November 2007
Body remains/ intestines found at the scene
- The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights is investigating a large
number of alleged executions and disappearances. Preliminary investigations
suggest that between June and October 2007 close to 500 bodies of young men
have been deposited in various mortuaries in the country by the police and the
KNCHR has evidence suggesting that other bodies were dumped in the wild for
hyenas and other wild animals to eat. Almost all the cadavers bear classic
execution signs of a bullet behind the head exiting through the forehead.
- KNCHR started the investigations after receiving reports from residents of Ngong
on corpses being dumped in the area all of which bore gunshot wounds. KNCHR
was further told of a common pattern in the killings; witnesses first saw Land
Cruiser vehicles, similar in make and colour to those used by the Kenya police
being driven around the area, where on different days, after hearing gunshots,
they stumbled upon unknown dead bodies bearing gunshot wounds. In one case,
KNCHR learnt from two witnesses how they met and talked to a handcuffed
person who unknown to them had escaped from police custody and was being
pursued by the police only for his dead body to be found dumped within the area
hours later. None of the deceased persons are known to the residents of Ngong
and Kiserian areas.
- The preliminary findings by KNCHR lead to the inescapable conclusion that the Police could be complicit in the killings. KNCHR is also extremely concerned that the emerging pattern points to possible complicity of State security agents in disappearance of persons. If these allegations turn to be true, they would constitute Crimes against Humanity and mirror the reign of the State Research Bureau of the Idi Amin era in Uganda.
