Kenya: The Kenya ex-Freedom Fighters and Families Welfare Association, its structure, leadership, membership and activities, and on whether its leaders and members are being pursued, detained, arrested and mistreated by the authorities
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 April 1998 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | KEN29135.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Kenya: The Kenya ex-Freedom Fighters and Families Welfare Association, its structure, leadership, membership and activities, and on whether its leaders and members are being pursued, detained, arrested and mistreated by the authorities, 1 April 1998, KEN29135.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab3e8c.html [accessed 19 October 2022] |
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Information on the Kenya ex-Freedom Fighters and Families Welfare Association and its treatment by the authorities could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
However, a 15 August 1996 International Press Service (IPS) report states that some ex-freedom fighters (Mau Mau) were claiming land confiscated by the British colonial administration during the 1952-1956 rebellion.
For further information on land issues in Kenya, particularly in the Rift valley, and the political violence surrounding those issues, please refer to the Human Rights Watch publications entitled Failing the Internally Displaced (June 1997), Multipartyism Betrayed in Kenya (July 1994) and Divide and Rule: State Sponsored Ethnic Violence in Kenya (November 1993) which are available at Regional Resources Centres.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
References
International Press Service (IPS). 15 August 1996. Charles Wachira. "Kenya(Human Rights: Ex-Freedom Fighters Want their Land Back." (NEXIS)
Additional Sources Consulted
Electronic Sources : FBIS, IRB databases and REFWORLD.
Human Rights Watch/Africa. June 1997. Failing the Internally Displaced. New York: Human Rights Watch.
_____. November 1993. Divide and Rule: State Sponsored Ethnic Violence in Kenya. New York: Human Rights Watch.
News From Africa Watch. July 1994. Vol. 6, No. 5. Multipartyism Betrayed in Kenya. New York: Human Rights Watch.
Two oral sources could not provide the requested information.
