Kenyan police kill 11 as crackdown on sect intensifies

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Source: CCTV.com | 06-08-2007 11:02

A general service unit police orders a man to surrender during a police crackdown on the banned Mungiki sect in Nairobi's Mathare slum.(AFP/Simon Maina)

Thursday marked the third day of a police crackdown on the Mungiki sect in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. At least 11 people were killed in the city's poor area.

The Mungiki group is accused of killing two police officers earlier in the week. And since Monday, police have killed more than 30 people and also arrested another 300.

The Mungiki sect was originally inspired by the 1950s Mau Mau uprising against British rule. But it's now become a street gang linked to murder, political violence and extortion.

It claims to have thousands of adherents, all drawn from Kenya's largest tribe.

Editor:Du Xiaodan