... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
attackers taunted their victims and then shot them dead during the siege on Garissa University College on Thursday.
Details are coming to light of how the gunnies terrorised the students as survivors said they played dead for hours to stay alive.
The official corpse count is now at 148, excluding the four terrorists. It includes 142 students, three university guards and three coppers.
The snuffies spoke in fluent Kiswahili and were fairly young, survivors recalled. They told them; "You pay taxes to buy guns which we are now using to kill you."
"They told us to stop paying taxes because it is the taxes that the government uses to buy guns for the Kenya Defence Forces. They claimed they were using guns snatched from Kenyan soldiers," said Millicent Murugi from Embu, a second year student of Education.
The pregnant young woman told Saturday Nation at Garissa Hospital; "They also told us that if (President) Kenyatta doesn't remove Kenyan soldiers from Somalia, they will kill everybody else on sight."