KENYA: Hundreds injured in Mandera security operation - activist

ISIOLO Friday, October 31, 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people have been injured in an operation aimed at restoring calm in the northeastern region of Mandera after a series of clan clashes left at least 20 people dead, a human rights activist has said. "We are monitoring the situation; it is very serious. The security forces have tortured and beaten civilians... Innocent women and old men have not been spared," Hassan Abdille, an officer with the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights in the...