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Monday April 28, 2008
Mungiki:
It comes less than a fortnight after the wife of the sect’s jailed leader was found beheaded, sparking riots in Nairobi and surrounding areas.
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Tuesday April 15, 2008
Mungiki:
Armed members of Kenya’s Mungiki gang, angry at the beheading of their political leader’s wife, fought paramilitary police on the streets of Nairobi yesterday. Up to 12 people were believed to have been killed.
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Friday April 4, 2008
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Nairobi – Some 200 members of a banned sect linked to murders and beheadings, as well as killings during recent post-election violence, were arrested in the Kenyan capital over the past three days, police said on Thursday.
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Tuesday January 29, 2008
Mungiki:
They gave warning to the unwelcome neighbors to leave. Then they came – dozens of young men with machetes – and hacked away at any members of the Luo tribe that they could find.
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Thursday January 24, 2008
Mungiki:
After the eruption of post-electoral violence, members of some communities have embraced the outlawed gangs to provide security in their territories.
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Thursday January 10, 2008
Mungiki:
Head of the state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Maina Kiai, said that members of the banned Mungiki, a shadowy gang mainly from President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe, were sought out for protection.
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Sunday November 25, 2007
Mungiki:
As many as 8,040 young Kenyans have been executed or tortured to death since 2002 during a five-year police crackdown on Mungiki, an outlawed sect.
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Tuesday November 6, 2007
Mungiki:
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights linked the slayings to a war between police and Mungiki – a violent, quasi-political, street gang accused of a string of beheadings and fatal shootings earlier this year.
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Thursday October 25, 2007
Mungiki:
Kenyan police arrested eight members of a banned sect, blamed for a string of murders and beheadings, while taking an illegal oath in the capital, said an official on Wednesday.
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Wednesday October 24, 2007
Mungiki:
Kenyan police have denied carrying out extra-judicial killings of alleged members of the outlawed Mungiki sect.
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Mungiki:
Police hit squads engaged in a vicious war with the criminal Mungiki sect are in the spotlight following the killing of scores of people whose bodies have been dumped in the Ngong Forest area.
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Thursday September 27, 2007
Mungiki:
The Mungiki, a quasi-religious criminal gang, has terrorised parts of Nairobi and central Kenya in the past few months.
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Thursday August 23, 2007
Mungiki:
Police arrested a suspected leader of an outlawed Kenyan group blamed for a string of beheadings and fatal shootings this year, the man’s family said Wednesday.
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Thursday July 12, 2007
Mungiki:
Many primary and secondary school students have joined the outlawed Mungiki sect, headteachers in Murang’a North and South districts said yesterday.
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Tuesday July 10, 2007
Mungiki:
Human rights groups have been calling on the Government to negotiate with the sect members with a view of ending the extra-judicial killings.
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Monday July 9, 2007
Mungiki:
The government of Kenya has admitted that it was not easy to wipe out Mungiki-like gangs, and ruled out any negotiations with sect members.
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Mungiki:
Last month, the police announced that they had killed 37 suspects during the crackdown on Mungiki in Mathare slums. The sect’s leaders placed the death toll at more than 100. But Mathare residents and human rights organisations can only account for 14 bodies.
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Wednesday July 4, 2007
Mungiki:
Locked in a war with Kenya’s police, the Mungiki criminal gang has already spread enough fear and violence to have made its name the word that is not spoken aloud in Kenya’s fertile highlands.
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The items, found inside a house where 12 Mungiki suspects were shot dead in Murang’a on Sunday, offer spine-chilling insights into oathing ceremonies conducted by the killer gang.
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Monday July 2, 2007
Mungiki:
Lately, screaming headlines in the bawdy tabloid newspapers of Nairobi have described the so-called Mungiki Menace. Dark tales of moonlight oath ceremonies have been followed by vows from politicians to end the violence and by police crackdowns targeting one of the city’s sprawling slums, where members of the secretive sect extort money from the poorest of the poor.
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Wednesday June 27, 2007
Mungiki:
Kenya police in two days shot and killed 10 men suspected of being members of an outlawed religious sect accused of a string of beheadings in and around the capital, police said on Tuesday.
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Tuesday June 26, 2007
Mungiki:
What began as a harmless traditional religious grouping a decade ago has evolved into an evil, destructive and multi-faceted monster.
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Saturday June 23, 2007
Mungiki:
It was a night of grisly Mungiki killings and action by police against suspects that left 22 people dead. In what police believe were revenge killings, three people were beheaded in Banana, Kiambu; five were shot dead in a Kariobangi bar and three while driving along Kangundo Road.
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Friday June 22, 2007
Mungiki:
These days Charity Bokindo, the district commissioner of Nairobi North, is taking no chances.
Wherever she goes, she carries not one but two pistols, and she always travels with armed guards.
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Thursday June 21, 2007
Mungiki:
The former leader of outlawed Mungiki sect John Kamunya, alias Maina Njenga, was today sentenced to five years for being in possession of a gun and trafficking marijuana.
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