Tear gas used against demonstrators in Nairobi, Blocked access roads

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Tear gas used against demonstrators in Nairobi, Blocked access roads

In the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the police have used tear gas and a water cannon to chase off demonstrators. According to a Reuters reporter, agents have also opened the fire. Photos of the news agency show a man with a bleeding head wound and other victims on the ground.

With today’s protest, demonstrators Saba Saba, a large street protest that took place on July 7, 1990. Today, Kenians took to the streets against then President Daniel Arap Moi, who carried out an authoritarian regime. Many were arrested and a few dozen people died. The protests contributed that the country received a democratic multi -party system.

The BBC reports that the authorities weigh in Nairobi have To prevent large protests against the government from taking place again. Kenyans are stopped far beyond the city center and barbed wire has been erected around government buildings. The center would be extinct, shops are closed.

At the end of last month, at least 19 demonstrators were killed in protests. Hundreds of injuries also fell. The demonstrators then took to the street for the victims of police violence. Since in June last year, massive protests against tax increases, dozens of people died in Kenya by police violence.

In the meantime, the protest movement focuses broader on corruption in the country, the police violence, mismanagement and repression. She also wants specific attention to the many abductions and disappearances of activists. Demonstrators demand the resignation of the government of President Ruto.

Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkelen says that the authorities will tackle “criminals and others who are in the sense”. Last month he called the demonstrations “Terrorism under the cover of protest”.

Previous protests ended in violence. Looting and demonstrators were attacked. According to social organizations, the perpetrators are managed by the police to intimidate demonstrators and put it in a bad light.