100 Refugees Held at Diani Police Station With No Food

One hundred Ethiopian or Eritrean refugees were held against their will at Diani Police station in south coast, Kenya on Saturday. The refugees, still unidentified individually or by nationality, are thought to be Ethiopian or Eritrean and had not eaten for four days.

US Involvement Indicated

US forces have been linked to the "hush-hush" detainment of the refugees in Kinangop, where they had been held for days by US forces whilst investigations into whether they were involved in terrorist groups, were carried out. The one hundred hungry, scared and lost men had been separated from the women who accompanied them and who's where abouts are unknown. Investigations could not link them to Al-Shabaab or any other terrorist activists.

Awful Conditions

The smell of faeces and sweat mixed into a toxic blend filled the Diani police station where all 100 men were forced into two cells and it was only two Diani businessmen accompanied by a Kenyan UK representative, that secretly delivered food and water to them late last night. No showers, no shoes and no food reminded one of the slave ships that Africans fought so hard to bury the memories of. In 2011 this can still happen to one of your own family.

Further Reports Expected

Kenyan UK, live at the scene last night, will be bringing you updates as they unfold and anyone wishing to express their concern should contact aid agencies and relevant bodies to highlight this cruelty and injustice seemingly perpetrated by US forces and then thrown into the hands of Diani police. Diani Police are not the ones to blame.

No One Knows How They Got So Far into Kenya

No one can say how the 100 men found their way so far into Kenya that they were handed to Diani police. As Ethiopia is to the north of Kenya it is still a mystery.