Document #1166559
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
According to the Africa Research
Bulletin (1-30 June 1991), hundreds of Somalis were rounded up
on 16 June 1991 reportedly to screen those people entering Kenya
illegally (Ibid., 10175). An article in Africa Events
(Sept. 1992) further reports that Somali refugees in Kenya have
been the object of abuse and harassment by Kenyan police:
On the weekend of August 15/16, the police burst into the temporary
homes of 2,000 Somali and Ethiopian refugees in Nairobi and
Mombasa, rounded them up, forced them to board lorries at gunpoint
after which they were driven to refugee camps. Families were
separated and many small children left abandoned. The police were
apparently in search of any "Somali-looking person" in areas with
large groups, such as Eastleigh, South C and Koma Rock
(Ibid., 8).
For further information on this topic,
please refer to the attached documents:
Africa Events [London].
September 1992. "Unbder Siege: Fleeing Their Country in Search of a
Safe Haven, the Somali Refugees Meet More Horrors in the
Sanctuaries Abroad."
Africa Research Bulletin: Political
Series [London]. 1-30 June 1990. Vol. 29, No. 7. ""Refugees
Crackdown."
Africa Events [London]. September
1992. "Unbder Siege: Fleeing Their Country in Search of a Safe
Haven, the Somali Refugees Meet More Horrors in the Sanctuaries
Abroad."
Africa Research Bulletin: Political
Series [London]. 1-30 June 1990. Vol. 29, No. 7. ""Refugees
Crackdown."