Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Waiting for justice in Kenya's Mt. Elgon Region
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| Other authors / contributors: | Rawlence, Ben.
Human Rights Watch (Organization)
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| ISBN: | 156432818X
9781564328182
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| Notes: | "October 2011"--Table of contents page.
"This report was researched and written by Neela Ghoshal, researcher in the Africa Division at Human Rights Watch. Ben Rawlence, senior researcher and Horn of Africa Team Leader at Human Rights Watch, edited the report and contributed to the research."--P. 74.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also issued online.
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| Summary: | "Approximately 300 Kenyans were forcibly disappeared in Kenya's Mt. Elgon region between 2006 and 2008, after being either arrested by Kenyan security forces or abducted by the militia group Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF). Over three years after a military operation was launched to flush out the militia--an operation that was accompanied by serious human rights abuses, including summary executions, enforced disappearance, and torture--the government has not provided any information on the plight of the disappeared, and their families are yet to have access to justice. "Hold Your Heart": Waiting for Justice in Kenya's Mt. Elgon Region documents the attempts of families of those forcibly disappeared by the Kenyan army and the SLDF to seek truth and justice. Human Rights Watch calls on the Kenyan government to open an inquiry into the fate of the missing persons. The International Criminal Court should also extend its Kenyan investigation to Mt. Elgon, the site of the highest concentration of pre- and post-election violence in the country."--P. [4] of cover.
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