’You were supposed to die tonight’: US anti-terror strategy linked to torture in Africa | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/09/you-were-supposed-to-die-tonight-us-anti-terror-strategy-linked-to-tort
Just before his torturers pushed him out of the van, barely conscious, on to the Nairobi pavement, Abdi was told he was one of the lucky ones: “You were supposed to die tonight.”
The security operatives who picked him up were Kenyan, but new research from the Angaza Foundation for African Reporting suggests they are part of a US-funded counter-terrorism strategy across Africa that is leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
Since Kenya invaded Somalia in 2011 in an effort to dislodge the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, thousands of ethnic Somalis like Abdi living in Kenya have been detained, many on dubious grounds.
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