Mombasa Riots After Kenyan Cleric Ibrahim Omar Killed…

Date: 05-10-2013 3:07 am (10 years ago) | Author: Tony Ladipo
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Violence follows the death of Muslim leader who is said
to have been assassinated by security forces in Mombasa
.


Sky News/BBC

Mombasa, Kenya
October 4, 2013


Four people have died during riots in Kenya sparked by the killing of a popular Muslim cleric and three of his associates, according to government officials.

Kenya's National Crisis Centre said three people died of stab wounds in the port city of Mombasa, while a man was killed by gunfire earlier in the day. Seven more wounded are in hospital.
Kenyan police in riot gear have fired tear gas to disperse crowds, protesting after the apparent assassination of a popular Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Omar, who preached at a mosque linked in the past to Somali Islamist militants.

Rioters set fire to a church in the area, it is reported.

Close associates of the victim said it was the latest in a string of extra-judicial killings of Muslims by Kenyan security forces, an allegation denied by the police. Robert Kitur, Mombasa County Police Commander, said: "The police have nothing to do with the shooting. That's not how we operate."


Salim Abdi was the only person in side the car to survive the attack and some of the protesters were detained by police.
The killing follows last month's attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi in which more than 60 people were killed in an attack by Somalia's militant al Shabaab group.

The latest shooting took place late on Thursday night, just a few hundred yards from where another outspoken cleric, Aboud Rogo, was shot dead in his vehicle in August 2012 in a strikingly similar attack.

The killing of Rogo, who was also linked to al Shabaab by both the Kenyan government and the US, unleashed deadly riots in Mombasa's run-down neighbourhoods where he commanded a loyal support base.

Like Rogo, Omar was popular among Muslim youths in Mombasa and along Kenya's Indian Ocean coastline, where many Muslims feel marginalised by the predominantly Christian Nairobi government.

On Friday anti-riot police patrolled Mombasa's Majengo neighbourhood, home to Masjid Mussa, a mosque where Omar gave sermons. Businesses in the area remained shut.

Sheikh Abubaker Sharif, who was close to Rogo and Omar, and faces charges of inciting last year's Mombasa riots, said: "They have killed Muslims again. We know it's the police."


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Posted: at 5-10-2013 03:07 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
- jossy4reall at 5-10-2013 05:23 AM (10 years ago)
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if they knew its the police why setting fire on a church instead of police station??

Posted: at 5-10-2013 05:23 AM (10 years ago) | Hero
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- ajanni at 5-10-2013 06:10 AM (10 years ago)
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may their souls rest in peace
Posted: at 5-10-2013 06:10 AM (10 years ago) | Grande Master
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- papadip at 5-10-2013 01:36 PM (10 years ago)
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The world is becoming too deadly...........
Posted: at 5-10-2013 01:36 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- ajanni at 6-10-2013 09:55 PM (10 years ago)
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Na wa ooooo
Posted: at 6-10-2013 09:55 PM (10 years ago) | Grande Master
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- ajanni at 7-10-2013 09:57 PM (10 years ago)
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yes yes ooooo
Posted: at 7-10-2013 09:57 PM (10 years ago) | Grande Master
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