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the personification of Somali state failure...returnees who sneaked back into the country but refuse to surrender to the police.
The operation will involve identifying communities that shield the returnees instead of handing them over for amnesty and rehabilitation.
Speaking in Lamu on Friday, Operation Linda Boni director Joseph Kanyiri said many of returnees are spies for the militia in Garissa, Lamu and Tana River.
He said communities in Witu, Kiunga, Kotile, Korissa, and Masalani are notorious for hiding returnees. They even help them to prepare and carry out attacks.
He said the spies are responsible for spreading propaganda leaflets, especially in Kotile, Korissa, and Msalani. "In the leaflets, the murderous Moslems claim they have no issues with Moslems and that their only target is Christians and [outsiders]."
| What Christians? Unless there have been massive secret conversions, the population is entirely Sunni Muslim. |