This article got me doing some serious thinking about who we are as Kenyans.But I enjoyed reading it for one thing, some justice is being done. However we need to see more than just this one corporal being punished. How about the big fish???
Kisumu shooting cop has case to answer, court rules
The policeman caught on video shooting at demonstrators during the 2008 post-election violence has a case to answer, a High Court judge ruled on Monday.
The former policeman is charged with the murder of two protestors during the mayhem. Corporal Edward Kirui is said to have shot the demonstrators George Onyango and Ishmael Chacha at Kondele area in Kisumu on January 16, 2008.
The events had been recorded on a video clip and were the ones used for identification of the suspect.
The officer handling the investigation, Edward Migiri, the OCS at Kondele police station had earlier told the court he identified the accused by watching the video and a photograph.
After the accused fired, the footage showed the officer walking to the men and kicking one of them as he tried to stand up.
The images drew condemnation from the opposition and human rights groups, which said the incident was an example of police brutality employed to quell the protests during the post-election mayhem.
The violence that followed the disputed 2007 General Elections left more than 1000 people dead and 600,000 others displaced.
So Kirui has a case to answer. For Kirui, his actions were just representative of the larger actions of the whole police force during the post election violence.
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