Tag: Somalia
December 28, 2017
Alternet : ‘Death Squads in Kenya’s Shadow War against al-Shabaab’
'The goal of the extrajudicial executions, according to Kiser, is to “exterminate and intimidate people believed to be associated with the Al Shabaab movement in neighboring Somalia.” Religious leaders told Kiser that Kenyan security forces “are targeting them unfairly for persecution if not indeed for summary execution,” though local authorities say they have intelligence linking imams to al-Shabaab'
February 10, 2017
Big Game: U.S. Soldiers’ Secret Hunt for Jihadists in a Kenyan Forest
“The Americans are very complicated, aren't they? On the one hand they are helping us by building roads, dispensaries, schools, but they also seem to want to kill us.”
February 24, 2016