Lawyer Mohamed Ibrahim said he felt “like a third rate citizen” following the announcement and implementation in November 1989 of an obviously illegal nationwide operation by the Kenyan government to screen the Somali community. This characterisation is apt: this week has been witness to unbridled attacks against the Somali Community sparked by two reprehensible events. In one instance, a clear terrorist attack on a matatu in Eastleigh, Nairobi led to reprisal attacks against the sizeable Somali community resident there...
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