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UN Envoy Urges Kenya to Stop Police Extrajudicial Killings

Rael Ombuor

   NAIROBI - Sixty-year-old Effa Kwendo lost two of her eight children in
   2018, just months apart, when police -- in broad daylight -- shot them
   dead.

   She admits her sons got into some trouble but, says nothing that would
   warrant the use of lethal force.

   "Robert had never been arrested or taken to jail.No one ever called to
   tell me he had been arrested or taken someone's car." Kwendo said. "All
   I know is that my son had a temper.If you wronged him, he would beat
   you up.Even my second son, there was nothing major he had done, maybe
   getting into little fights here and there."

   The deaths are just two of hundreds of cases of police killings that
   Kenyan rights groups have documented.

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