Kenyan Children Abducted by Militia, Tortured. Then Tortured by Government Troops Upon Recapture

Excerpt AP report "Kenyan children abducted, tortured "

Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of being forced to crawl through barbed wire tunnels and of genitals squeezed by pliers.

Then the children took off their shirts. White scars crisscrossed the dark skin on their backs like grains of rice. Some were still bleeding.

These children are among hundreds in western Kenya who have been terrorized, many twice over, first by a militia in their villages and then by the army sent to fight it. The militia forced children as young as 10 to become soldiers. In a widespread crackdown, the army then rounded up the children and thousands of adults and tortured them, human rights groups say.

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In March, the Kenyan government sent its army to crack down on the Sabaot Land Defense Force militia, which is named after the Sabaot region. But instead of hunting down militia fighters where they hide in the forests of Mount Elgon, the army swept up thousands of men and boys from the surrounding villages.

Since then, so many reports of murder and torture have emerged that Kenya's state-run human rights commission is calling for the prosecution of the defense minister and top army and police officials. There are also calls for the United States and Britain to suspend millions of dollars in aid and training to the Kenyan army.

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Mugabe indeed is a bad man, but maybe we should focus on the problems in other parts of Africa too.  Even South Africa isn't that good as Whites still have nearly one of the highest standards of living while most blacks live much like they did a century ago.  According to a NY Times piece only those blacks who are unusually well skilled or connected have been able to buck the trend.  Human rights problems are endemic in Kenh as seen by violence surrounding the recent elections and examples of massive police brutality within the last year.

The point here is that the West seems intent on making an example of Robert Mugave because he took land from whites recently.  (Kenya had been taking some land back before the mid 90s, but apparently stopped.)

Human rights should be human rights whether or not a government requires Europeans to give up some of the vast tracks of land they claimed while African nations were colonies.

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