Kenya: Pokot Petition Govt Over Raids By Soldiers
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East African Standard (Nairobi)
21 July 2007
Posted to the web 20 July 2007
Osinde Obare
Nairobi
Pokot leaders have asked the government to intervene over external raids on the
community by the Uganda Peoples Defence Force (UPDF).The leaders protested the
recent killings of seven Kenyans and confiscation of over 1,300 head of cattle
by the UPDF in the past three weeks.
Led by Assistant minister, Mr Samuel Moroto, and the Rev John Lodinyo, the
leaders accused the Ugandan soldiers of crossing into Kenya, killing civilians
and confiscating animals.
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On Monday, the Ugandan soldiers crossed into Kenya, shot dead three people
and allegedly abducted 30 others in Pokot North district.
The soldiers rounded up cattle from the local herdsmen and drove them to the
army barracks in Uganda.
And a fortnight ago, the Ugandan soldiers carried a similar raid killing four
people in Nasal area in the same district and stole 800 cattle.
On Friday, the leaders called on the government to intervene and stop and
further killings.
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"Our people are being terrorised by foreign troops in our
own soil. Let the government intervene otherwise we are not going to sit and
watch our people suffer at the hands of the aggressors," said Rev Lodinyo.
The leaders, at the same time demanded the immediate release of Kenyans and the
return of the animals detained at Ugandan army barracks in Moroto and
Nakapirpirit districts.
"This is an insult to our people and we wonder why the government has kept mum
over the issue?" posed Mr Sammy Lokadio, a former Pokot University Students'
Organisation leader
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