'They just eliminate us': Are Kenya's police getting away with murder? – AuthenticAfrican

Posted on by Kyri Evangelou , Rod Austin, Katie Lamborn, Tracy McVeigh, Marina Costa, Ben Kape and Ken Macfarlane

Promising student Carilton Maina was shot by the police in Nairobi. His mother believes he was murdered. As part of The Guardian's special focus on Kibera, we met residents of Africa's largest slum to explore their deep distrust of the police and find out what Maina's, and other recent deaths, can tell us about the dramatic rise in extrajudicial killings across Kenya.

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