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Kenya disputes UN claim that KDF killed 40 Somali civilians
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The Kenyan government is disputing allegations in a new United Nations...the Oyster Bay money pit... report that its forces were responsible for 40 civilian deaths in Somalia during a 22-month period ending in mid-October. The report issued on Sunday states that air strikes carried out by the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) were "allegedly responsible for 42 civilian casualties (36 killed, six injured)." Casualties The UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (Unsom) and the UN Human Rights Office, which jointly compiled the report, attribute those deaths and injuries to KDF units not affiliated with the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (Amisom). Kenya's Amisom contingent is meanwhile said in the report to have killed four Somali civilians and injured five others. "Ultimately, civilians are paying the price for failure to resolve Somalia’s conflicts through political means," said Unsom chief Michael Keating. "And parties to the conflict are simply not doing enough to shield civilians from the violence. This is shameful." Posted by: Fred 2017-12-12 |
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