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Wednesday June 20, 2007
Mungiki:
Police swooped into Nairobi’s Mathare slum after the killings and subsequent beheadings of at least half a dozen people by the outlawed Mungiki sect, and rounded up men, women and children said to be linked to the group.
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Wednesday June 13, 2007
Mungiki:
Police in Kenya are battling Mungiki – a quasi-religious sect of criminals.
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Thursday June 7, 2007
Mungiki:
Suspected Mungiki sect members have issued fresh threats as the government of Kenya declared total war on the outlawed group.
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Mungiki:
Gunbattles erupted as police conducted house-to-house searches for members of an outlawed sect accused of terrorizing Kenyans and leaving behind a string of beheaded corpses.
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Wednesday June 6, 2007
Mungiki:
Sociologists have warned that the hunt for the Mungiki terror gang in the city’s slums might explode into a catastrophe.
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Mungiki:
The lives of 33 people were cruelly snuffed out in a single night, 27 of them killed by police battling Mungiki suspects in a swoop triggered by the murder of two security officers on patrol in the sprawling Mathare slums in Nairobi.
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Mungiki:
In Kenya more than 100 police officers, angry at the brutal murder of two of their colleagues, indiscriminately attacked suspected members of the Mungiki gang.
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Monday June 4, 2007
Mungiki:
Kenya’s security minister alleges that Mungiki members drank the blood of people they beheaded.
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Mungiki:
Mungiki, an organized criminal gang that has tried to disguise itself as a religious movement, keeps foreigners from investing in Kenya.
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Sunday June 3, 2007
Mungiki:
Members of Kenya’s outlawed Mungiki gang beheaded two more people on Saturday, local media said, a day after the president vowed to crack down on those behind a wave of violence in the volatile run-up to elections.
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Saturday June 2, 2007
Mungiki:
Police have arrested 2,464 suspected followers of an outlawed religious sect whose members are believed to have beheaded several people in recent months, the government spokesman said Thursday.
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Friday May 25, 2007
Mungiki:
A Kenyan court has dropped charges against a former leader of the banned Mungiki sect for lack of evidence linking him to the gang.
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Tuesday May 22, 2007
Mungiki:
This renewed wave of violence came barely 12 hours after Internal Security Minister, John Michuki while in Kangema on Saturday, declared total war on the sect’s adherents saying: they will be phased out of the Kenyan Map unless they reverted to the rule of law and order.
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Saturday April 28, 2007
Mungiki:
Members of a quasi-religious gang of criminal thugs torched three buses in what is believed to be a revenge attack against those who failed to pay protection fees.
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Tuesday April 24, 2007
Mungiki:
The officer was killed on Tuesday morning during a raid at a suspected mungiki hideout after two buses were torched overnight.
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Sunday April 22, 2007
Mungiki:
Although they know that some of them would be killed for participating in the protests, mobs of matatu crews, armed with all manner of weapons, stormed suspected Mungiki adherents’ homes and set them ablaze.
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Friday April 20, 2007
Mungiki:
However, Defense Minister Njenga Karume’s ultimatum to the terror gang on Wednesday was to first renounce the criminal group before engaging the government in searching for peace.
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Tuesday April 17, 2007
Mungiki:
Suspected members of the outlawed Mungiki sect have retaliated and killed a matatu operator following Monday’s chaos which led to the burning of houses belonging to the sect members in Kiambu district.
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Monday April 16, 2007
Mungiki:
Matatu tension returned to Kiambu on Monday, after matatu crews set ablaze six houses belonging to suspected members of the outlawed Mungiki sect.
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Friday April 6, 2007
Mungiki:
Over 500 members of Mungiki sect have been arrested in Central province in a major crackdown conducted by the newly-formed special police squad (Anti-Mungiki) in the last one-week.
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Friday March 30, 2007
Mungiki:
Police in Kenya have set up a special unit to deal with the quasi-religious gang of criminals known as Mungiki.
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Wednesday March 28, 2007
Mungiki:
Angry bus drives burnt houses of suspected Mungiki followers in Githunguri, Kiambu District, while protesting against harassment by sect members.
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Thursday March 22, 2007
Mungiki:
A court yesterday dismissed an application by a leader of the outlawed Mungiki sect, Mr Joseph Maina Kamunya, for bail pending hearing of the main case.
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Tuesday March 20, 2007
Mungiki:
Public transport on the Kiambu-Nairobi route was paralysed yesterday as matatu operators demonstrated against extortion by Mungiki sect members.
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Saturday March 3, 2007
Mungiki:
The young mothers, meeting under the auspices of New Dandora 1 Development Group this week, tell terrifying tales of abuse and suffering tinged with regret for what their lives could have been were it not for their “marriage” to criminals, the majority of whom are members of the proscribed Mungiki quasi-religious outfit.
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