Reuters reports that Kenyan authorities vehemently refute the “police death squad” allegations made in the Al Jazeera documentary, which aired on Monday. The documentary in question purports to show unnamed security personnel revealing their roles in government-directed hits of radical muslim leaders.
Kenya’s government has expressed its anger over a documentary produced by Al Jazeera, which features unidentified Kenyan security personnel claiming that Kenya’s police operates death squads which target radical muslim preachers.
Reuters reports that Kenyan authorities vehemently refute the “police death squad” allegations made in the Al Jazeera documentary, which aired on Monday. The documentary in question purports to show unnamed security personnel revealing their roles in government-directed hits of radical muslim leaders.
Kenya’s interior ministry has released a statement warning that it was working to bring charges against journalists connected with the documentary and argued that the documentary was "deliberately skewed to support and empathize with terrorists and their sympathizers".
Muslim groups have decried heavy-handed police action targeting mosques and muslim leaders, which the government argues are centers for the radicalization of impressionable muslim youth.
Kenya’s police force has been under pressure to snuff out an increasing string of deadly terrorist attacks committed by the Al-Shabab terror network including a chilling midnight attack at a quarry in Kormey, where 33 quarry workers were executed, with three decapitated about a week ago. The Al-Shabab group has warned Kenya that it would be escalating attacks on Kenyan territory as long as Kenyan troops remain in Somalia in support of the Somali transitional government.[story_link align="left"]36432[/story_link]