On April 4, the government launched the operation Rudisha usalama ( " restore security " in Swahili ) , better known as Usalama watch. Eastleigh was isolated from the rest of the capital and security forces rounded up the palm to palm .
It seemed clear that would have been the Somali community in its entirety to pay the bill for the wake of the attacks , claimed by the Islamist armed group al-Shabab or attributed this . A report just published by Amnesty International, it provides ample confirmation .
According to the Minister of the Interior, Joseph Ole Lenku , in the first week of the operation Rudisha usalama , Eastleigh were arrested more than 4,000 people , some Kenyans , refugees and migrants of other nationalities , but for the vast majority of Somalis.
Not one of these people , according to information available to Amnesty International, has been indicted for terrorist offenses.
Those arrested were held for days in overcrowded cells and in hygienic conditions unworthy , or at the Kasarani stadium and left without food and without access to lawyers . Not counted cases of beatings , intimidation, extortion and sexual assault.
A woman died of fright after agents of the security forces came in, guns blazing , at his home . A child , left alone for three days while his mother was under arrest , he was found dead .
More than 1,000 Somalis, including unaccompanied children and lactating mothers , were forcibly relocated in overcrowded and insecure refugee camps in Dadaab and Kakuma .
It went even worse at least 359 Somali refugees and asylum seekers ( including a woman 85 years old and at least eight minors) , returned to their country of origin, still haunted by the war in violation of international law. With them, they were also deported 28 Ethiopians and six Ugandan asylum seekers .
On May 27 , there was the first hearing of a class action lawsuit filed by nine members of the Association of Eastleigth community representing more than 500 people affected by the operation Usalama Watch.
It seemed clear that would have been the Somali community in its entirety to pay the bill for the wake of the attacks , claimed by the Islamist armed group al-Shabab or attributed this . A report just published by Amnesty International, it provides ample confirmation .
According to the Minister of the Interior, Joseph Ole Lenku , in the first week of the operation Rudisha usalama , Eastleigh were arrested more than 4,000 people , some Kenyans , refugees and migrants of other nationalities , but for the vast majority of Somalis.
Not one of these people , according to information available to Amnesty International, has been indicted for terrorist offenses.
Those arrested were held for days in overcrowded cells and in hygienic conditions unworthy , or at the Kasarani stadium and left without food and without access to lawyers . Not counted cases of beatings , intimidation, extortion and sexual assault.
A woman died of fright after agents of the security forces came in, guns blazing , at his home . A child , left alone for three days while his mother was under arrest , he was found dead .
More than 1,000 Somalis, including unaccompanied children and lactating mothers , were forcibly relocated in overcrowded and insecure refugee camps in Dadaab and Kakuma .
It went even worse at least 359 Somali refugees and asylum seekers ( including a woman 85 years old and at least eight minors) , returned to their country of origin, still haunted by the war in violation of international law. With them, they were also deported 28 Ethiopians and six Ugandan asylum seekers .
On May 27 , there was the first hearing of a class action lawsuit filed by nine members of the Association of Eastleigth community representing more than 500 people affected by the operation Usalama Watch.
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