Kenyan Muslims vowed on Friday, Aug. 31 to hold weeks of protests to compel the government to end its involvement in the arbitrary arrest, illegal deportation and torture of “suspected terrorists.” The program is being driven by the United States, which works closely with client regimes in Kenya and Ethiopia in the so-called war on terror. An AP investigation, published on April 3, found that Kenyan authorities put over 100 people from Kenya on secret rendition flights to Ethiopia for interrogation by U.S. officials, including 19 women and 15 children, even a baby of seven months. “We don’t expect this in our country. Just how much power do the Americans have over the Kenyan government?” asked Al-Amin Kimathi, chairman of Kenya’s Muslim Human Rights Forum. U.S. imperialist intervention in the Horn of Africa is an extension of U.S. policy in Iraq and the broader region.
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