Wednesday 3 February 2016

VIDEO OF HOW SECURITY FORCES CREATE 'HURTED' COMMUNITY  

One of the main drivers of violent extremism is often identified as police harassment that creates a drift between police and members of the community. All over the world the security forces are encouraged and trained to handle citizens and criminals with utmost care and attention. The US president in his first speech at Azhaar University said '' In modern countries where accountability is practiced and rule of law upheld, the presence of a police induces the first sense of absolute security. In Africa, the presence of Security is actually the start of Insecurity itself''.

 Kenya, a country that boost that it has one of the most robust democracy and rule of law rightly fits into President Obamas description. It has no doubts that the security forces dealings on the Muslim community and specificly Somali people creates more radicals than it is solving. 
In a documentary by Aljazeera, a celebrated Kenyan-Somali journalist Mohammed Adow, brought out how Kenyan somalis even after staying in the country for as long as they can remember (Their only home) are mishandled, condemned to have ochestrated, collectively punished and their rights violated by the same government that was suppose to give them protection. 

In a video that seems to have been recorded by one of the Kenya's security forces which was leaked to Social media, two Cushitic looking men are seen being harassed and beaten by one of the Kenya's security forces in a Forest. 
Although no amount of Mishandling can change one to diehard terrorist, this hurts the peace loving Somali-Kenyans




A video showing police harassment