Victims and their family members caught up in a wave of kidnappings and extrajudicial killings in Kenya have called on the International Criminal Court to investigate, the country's human rights commission told AFP Monday.
Fury has been growing in the East African country over dozens of unsolved cases of people being kidnapped -- and sometimes tortured or killed -- since anti-government protests in June last year were repressed. "We are calling for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to intervene...
because the Kenya security justice system has failed," said Ernest Cornel of the Kenya Human Rights Commission. "It is police who are accused of conducting the forced disappearances, conducting extrajudicial killings," he told AFP. "It can't be that the same security officers who are accused of this crime can then come and start investigating them." His organisation has recorded more than 60 extrajudicial killings and 89 abduction cases since the June protests, with 29 people still missing.
Bob Njagi and Aslam Longton told a press conference on Sunday that they were tortured by security agents after being abducted in August -- and have been living in fear since their release in September.
