Press Release
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The Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development condemns the terrorist attack with an explosive device on vehicles carrying eight Kenyan police officers on Tuesday 12/6/2023 in Garissa district in eastern Kenya on the border with Somali that led to the 8 officers killing.
The attack is suspected of being carried out by the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab, which has been engaged in a bloody insurgency for more than 15 years and suspected of targeting security forces and tourists’ cars.
Since 2011, Kenya has been the target of many of the extremist movement’s bloody attacks, notably the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that killed 67 people in September 2013, and also in the University of Garissa, which killed 148 in April 2015, and on the Dusit Hotel complex, which killed 21 in January 2019.
The Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development expresses its condemnation these criminal acts carried out by the extremist group Al-Shabaab in Kenya targeting police officers and civilians and its permanent rejection of all forms of violence and terrorism aimed at destabilizing security and stability and contrary to international human rights values, principles, laws and norms, whatever their motivation or justification, as the deliberate targeting of innocent people is abhorrent and unimaginable and terrorist gatherings must not succeed in sowing hatred and making peace impossible.
The Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development also stresses the serious danger of the continuation of these brutal criminal acts, which claim the lives of many innocent people and threaten their security, safety and rights stipulated in international human rights norms, and emphasizes the need for this to stop theses criminal attacks, calling on all countries of the world to solidarity with Kenya or any other country in the world suffering from fugitives in tackling these terrorist groups to protect its security and stability, eliminate this scourge, confront this abhorrent phenomenon and dry up its financial and intellectual sources, or in any way.
