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March 9, 2009

Kenyan Human Rights Activist Assassinated
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In other news from Africa, a prominent Kenyan human rights activist and
one of his colleagues have been shot dead in Nairobi. Oscar Kamau
Kingara was the founder of the respected Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid
Clinic. Last year, the organization published a report accusing the
police of torturing or killing more than 8,000 Kenyans. Cyprian
Nyamwamu, of the Kenya Human Rights Consortium, said, “The human rights
community in Kenya holds the government fully and wholly responsible for
the assassinations.”



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