"Hold your heart" : waiting for justice in Kenya's Mt. Elgon Region / [written by Neela Ghoshal ; edited by Ben Rawlence]
2011
KSK2095 .G56 2011 (Mapit)
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"Hold your heart" : waiting for justice in Kenya's Mt. Elgon Region / [written by Neela Ghoshal ; edited by Ben Rawlence]
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[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2011]
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79 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
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Summary and Recommendations
Methodology
I. Background
II. "We Look for the Husbands in the Forest": Unresolved Disappearances
Enforced Disappearances by the Kenyan Armed Forces
Three Women's Stories
Disappearances by the Sabaot Land Defence Force
III. Government Response to Disappearances and Other Abuses
Failure to Investigate
The Police Report
The Military Statement
The Parliamentary Report
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Report
The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Hearings
Lack of Initiative in Undertaking Further Investigation
Lack of Witness Protection
Failure to Exhume Mass Graves
Difficulties in Accessing Death Certificates
IV. Status of Attempts to Seek Justice
Enforced Disappearance Cases
Bungoma Habeas Corpus Case
Preparation of a Complaint before the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Other Human Rights Cases Filed
The East African Court of Justice
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
V. Kenyan and International Law
On Enforced Disappearance
On Other Human Rights Abuses Committed at Mt. Elgon
Mt. Elgon, the International Criminal Court, and the Post-Election Violence
VI. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Letter to Internal Security Minister George Saitoti, May 10, 2011.
Methodology
I. Background
II. "We Look for the Husbands in the Forest": Unresolved Disappearances
Enforced Disappearances by the Kenyan Armed Forces
Three Women's Stories
Disappearances by the Sabaot Land Defence Force
III. Government Response to Disappearances and Other Abuses
Failure to Investigate
The Police Report
The Military Statement
The Parliamentary Report
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Report
The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Hearings
Lack of Initiative in Undertaking Further Investigation
Lack of Witness Protection
Failure to Exhume Mass Graves
Difficulties in Accessing Death Certificates
IV. Status of Attempts to Seek Justice
Enforced Disappearance Cases
Bungoma Habeas Corpus Case
Preparation of a Complaint before the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Other Human Rights Cases Filed
The East African Court of Justice
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
V. Kenyan and International Law
On Enforced Disappearance
On Other Human Rights Abuses Committed at Mt. Elgon
Mt. Elgon, the International Criminal Court, and the Post-Election Violence
VI. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Letter to Internal Security Minister George Saitoti, May 10, 2011.
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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"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.
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Online version: Ghoshal, Neela. "Hold your heart". [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, c2011
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Cover Title
Kenya, "Hold your heart"
Call Number
KSK2095 .G56 2011
Language
English
ISBN
156432818X
9781564328182
9781564328182
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