Human rights organisations have urged the Kenyan government to initiate probe into the rising cases of enforced disappearances and killings targeting Muslim community, especially from the North Eastern region.
The rights groups say the government should establish commission of inquiry to look into the matter and bring to book all the perpetrators of criminal acts of extrajudicial executions.
Speaking on Tuesday during the International Day of enforced disappearances and killings, Peter Kiama, who is the Executive Director of independent Medico-Legal Units (IMLU) said enforced disappearances have become so rampant and and that the vice can only be sustainably addressed by the government committing itself to bringing all the suspects to account and take responsibility for the missing ersons.
“Recently, the High Court in Nairobi found out that the prominent human rights activist and lawyer had been subjected to an enforced disappearance and later on executed by police. This is a dangerous trend and the government should set a commission of inquiry into the matter,” said Kiama.
Many of the enforced murders and disappearances which have occurred in the recent past under the context of operations against perceived sympathisers of the Somalia-based Islamist group, Al-Shabaab has affected most Muslims, especially residents of North Eastern counties, Nairobi and Coast.