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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Photos on the front page of Kenya's largest newspaper yesterday showed shocking images of what appeared to be undercover police shooting three compliant suspects at point-blank range in the middle of the day on a busy Nairobi highway.[/font]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Photos on the front page of Kenya's largest newspaper yesterday showed shocking images of what appeared to be undercover police shooting three compliant suspects at point-blank range in the middle of the day on a busy Nairobi highway.[/font]
Kenya's Minister for Internal Security George Saitoti said yesterday three police officers are under investigation and could face charges.[/font]
NAIROBI, KENYA — A man believed to be a Kenyan undercover police officer is seen Wednesday, aiming a weapon at men lying on the road in the middle of traffic in Nairobi, Kenya. Photos on the front page of Kenya's largest newspaper yesterday showed shocking images of what appeared to be undercover police shooting three compliant suspects at point-blank range in the middle of the day on a busy Nairobi highway. (Photo: AP)
The photos printed by the Daily Nation were taken on a cellphone by a passing motorist. The photos show two men lying face-down and an undercover police officer pointing a gun near their bodies. A later photo shows two men with multiple bullet wounds to the head, who appeared to be dead. A third killing also apparently took place. The incident appeared to have occurred on a well-traversed highway opposite a busy regional airport in Kenya's capital.[/font]
The headline above the photos read "Executed point-blank" and an editorial inside the paper said Kenya's police must not become criminals themselves. The paper reported that a police commander at the scene told journalists the suspects had drawn weapons on the police and fired at them, though the photos appear to show a far different tale.[/font]
It was not an exchange of fire; nor by any stretch of the imagination could it pass as lawful use of lethal force," the Daily Nation's editorial read. "The victims posed absolutely no threat because they had clearly been subdued."[/font]
The paper also reported that after the killings, the police turned their guns on journalists at the scene and threatened to shoot them.[/font]
Saitoti said in a news conference yesterday that it is not government policy to execute suspects. A 2009 UN report found extrajudicial killings by Kenyan police are systematic and widespread. Saitoti blamed incidents of extrajudicial killings on rogue police officers.[/font]
We admit that there are rotten eggs and we are going to get rid of them," Saitoti said. "They are not the majority. We have good honest police officers out there."[/font]
But Hassan Omar Hassan, a commissioner with the government-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, said the killings support claims by human rights groups that there is a silent policy within the government to use extrajudicial killings to combat crime.[/font]
"It's audacious. For you to have that kind of audacity to do it ... during morning traffic in broad daylight! It shows that it is a common practice or standard used by certain people in the police force, "Hassan said.[/font]
In a 2008 report called The Cry of Blood, the commission said police were to blame for the executions and disappearances of more than 500 people it had documented who were suspected of being members of a notorious gang.[/font]
In 2009 Philip Alston, then the UN's expert on extrajudicial killings, investigated the death and disappearance of suspected gang members and concluded in a report that Kenyan police were running death squads.
The headline above the photos read "Executed point-blank" and an editorial inside the paper said Kenya's police must not become criminals themselves. The paper reported that a police commander at the scene told journalists the suspects had drawn weapons on the police and fired at them, though the photos appear to show a far different tale.[/font]
It was not an exchange of fire; nor by any stretch of the imagination could it pass as lawful use of lethal force," the Daily Nation's editorial read. "The victims posed absolutely no threat because they had clearly been subdued."[/font]
The paper also reported that after the killings, the police turned their guns on journalists at the scene and threatened to shoot them.[/font]
Saitoti said in a news conference yesterday that it is not government policy to execute suspects. A 2009 UN report found extrajudicial killings by Kenyan police are systematic and widespread. Saitoti blamed incidents of extrajudicial killings on rogue police officers.[/font]
We admit that there are rotten eggs and we are going to get rid of them," Saitoti said. "They are not the majority. We have good honest police officers out there."[/font]
But Hassan Omar Hassan, a commissioner with the government-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, said the killings support claims by human rights groups that there is a silent policy within the government to use extrajudicial killings to combat crime.[/font]
"It's audacious. For you to have that kind of audacity to do it ... during morning traffic in broad daylight! It shows that it is a common practice or standard used by certain people in the police force, "Hassan said.[/font]
In a 2008 report called The Cry of Blood, the commission said police were to blame for the executions and disappearances of more than 500 people it had documented who were suspected of being members of a notorious gang.[/font]
In 2009 Philip Alston, then the UN's expert on extrajudicial killings, investigated the death and disappearance of suspected gang members and concluded in a report that Kenyan police were running death squads.