Thursday 28 February 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL


Today Amnesty international staged a demostration at the Kenya High commission in London about the cris in kenya.Amnesty International urged Kenya's leaders to ensure the human rights of Kenyan people are protected.
An international day of public and online action this month will demonstrate solidarity with the people of Kenya and call on the Kenyan government to protect people from politically-motivated and ethnic violence.




On 27 February, people showed their outrage at the continuing human rights abuses in Kenya in a series of events organised by Amnesty International; including an online Facebook action and a series of street demonstrations.


Amnesty International's recent visit to Kenya found evidence of unlawful killings, the ethnically targeted forced relocation and burning of homes by armed militias, excessive use of force by security officials, sexual violence against women and girls, and violations of freedom of expression and assembly.



Amnesty International has also documented death threats against human rights defenders and activists.
Subsequent violence has seen increasingly organised attacks by ethnic militia and youth gangs against people of Kikuyu ethnicity, which has led to retaliatory attacks by Kikuyu militias and youth gangs.




Amnesty International called on the Kenyan government to protect the people of Kenya, many of whom have endured unrelenting suffering in the last two months.







The death toll includes hundreds shot dead by police, who were deployed to quell the post-election violence and break up mass protests against the election called by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) opposition party.





Kenyan leaders must end the cycle of impunity that perpetuates the politically motivated violence in Kenya.



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