cc Following his mission in Kenya over the period 16–25 February, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary or Summary Executions Philip Alston issued a press statement outlining his findings. Drawing attention to the entrenched impunity of the country’s police force, Alston questions the complete absence of an accountability mechanism around police killings and the...read more
cc Following his mission in Kenya over the period 16–25 February, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary or Summary Executions Philip Alston issued a press statement outlining his findings. Drawing attention to the entrenched impunity of the country’s police force, Alston questions the complete absence of an accountability mechanism around police killings and the force’s broad reluctance to engage with detailed and comprehensive civil society concerns. The rapporteur likewise underlines the concerted efforts to block his access to records around security force activities, and need for independent investigation around events in Mt Elgon. Alston also argues the lack of any form of witness protection programme to be a key factor in the persistence of a culture of impunity, and states that the government must move to providing adequate reparations for families left unable to meet their needs through the deaths of husbands and fathers.