by JACOB NG’ETICH
Newly arrived refugees from Somalia wait to be registered at Dagehaley camp. PHOTO/Kate Holt/IRIN
Police were on Monday accused of human rights violations including gang raping and extorting money from refugees.
The report also accused the Kenyan government of also providing military assistance to militias supporting Somali’s transitional government (TFG) without acting to ensure accountability for abuses by their troops or by the militias they support.
The Human Rights Watch report, “You don’t know who to blame: War Crimes in Somalia”, reports extensively on human rights violations by the Kenya Police on the Somali asylum seekers and refugees face as they try enter into the country.
The report gives accounts of two women who were raped by police near Daadab.
However, despite the promise by police to conduct investigations into the allegations of rape and other abuses nothing has happened so far.
In another allegation, the reports says that in January, three policemen from Daadab station gang raped a newly arrived asylum seeker.
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