By Our Correspondent, NAIROBI
Kenya
The Kenya’s law enforcement has been on the spotlight over their handling of protesters in the series of anti-government protests.
The use of excessive lethal
force by the police has resulted in deaths and injuries and now the opposition
says it is seeking to have the international community involved
“We are calling on the
international community not to lose sight of what is happening in our land,”
Wandayi said.
The opposition is turning its
attention and plea for help to the United Nations.
Azimio’s legal advisor Paul
Mwangi says the opposition is inviting the United Nations special rapporteur on
freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Clement Nyaletosti to take a keen
look at the unfolding events in Kenya in regard to the handling of the protests
and the violation of the citizens’s rights to peaceful assembly.
The opposition says it is also
taking matters into its own hands by collecting evidence of police action
against protesters right from the Saba Saba protests to last week’s three days
of protests.
Azimio says this evidence will
be crucial when it files a case against the government and the police at the
International Criminal Court at The Hague.
The opposition further says it
has already compiled a list of what it terms as persons of interest as it ramps
up its own evidence gathering.
Azimio will also have a meeting on Tuesday to review the proof gathered so far ahead of Wednesday’s protests. This as leader of minority in the national assembly called for a halt to what he says is rampant police brutality in Luo Nyanza.
“We are seeing a systematic
onslaught on unarmed peaceful civilians by police or people who call themselves
police, some are in uniform others are not, the kind of aggression and
brutality we see in Luo Nyanza is something that has never been witnessed,”
Wandayi added.
The call comes a day after Law
society of Kenya Nyanza chapter and Human rights group began the process
documenting alleged cases of atrocities by the police.
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