Browsing by Author "Mwamburi, Adam Mwenda Hamisi"

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Human rights abuses of Muslim minority in Mombasa, Kenya
(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC THOUGHTS, 2016) Mwamburi, Adam Mwenda Hamisi
Despite Constitutional guarantees, human rights of Muslim minorities in Kenya are being infringed upon by government security agents. This study examines the actual forms human rights violations havetaken place against Muslim minorities in Kenya, in particular Muslims in Mombasa city after 9/11. It further examines the reasons why Muslims in Kenya and Mombasa in particular become the victims of these human rights violations. This study is based upon documentary sources, a series of unstructured interviews with community leaders, defense lawyers, human rights activists and members of human rights organizations. The study found human rights abuses against the Muslim communities in Mombasa after 9/11 being unprecedented. It has taken such forms as, extra-judicial executions of Muslim clerics and activists, forceful disappearances of Muslim terror suspects, arbitrary arrests, raids conducted particularly of Muslim homes, and closing down of mosques in Mombasa by police. Muslim Kenyans are suffering in the hands of the special police unit known as Anti-Terrorist Police Unit (ATPU). Since its creation in 2003, this counter-terrorism branch reportedly committed gross human rights abuses that violated international, regional and domestic laws.
HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AND MUSLIM MINORITIES IN KENYA (2001-2013): A CASE OF MOMBASA CITY
(2016-07-01) Mwamburi, Adam Mwenda Hamisi
This study analyzes the human rights issues affecting Muslim minorities in Kenya after 9/11, with special reference to Mombasa City. The study is based on both primary and secondary sources, content analysis of several documents and in-depth interview of11 knowledgeable persons selected through snowball method. Among the interviewees were Muslim community leaders, defense lawyers, and human rights activists, representatives of human rights organizations, Muslim youth activists and victims. The study focuses on the various forms of human rights violations suffered by Muslims in Kenya and the factors which account for these transgressions. Its framework relates human rights violations (HRV) to the internal and external factors contributing to human rights violations against Muslim minorities in Kenya. The research identifies a number of pertinent indicators of human rights violations faced by them, such as cases of arbitrary arrests and detentions, extra judicial killings, illegal extradition outside Kenyan jurisdiction, forceful disappearances and torture. In addition, the study identifies the following indicators of the internal factors facilitating human rights violations: the absence of regulating and monitoring of police work and security, a biased judiciary, repressive regime policies, ineffective NGOs and unchecked acts of impunity on the part of government officials. The study draws attention to the linkage between human rights violations against Muslim minorities and anti-terror measures introduced after 9/11 as part of the Bush administration‘s " Global War on Terror‘‘ and related counter-terrorism financial assistance programme.