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do not do anything I was just like their
frame on September 21st 2013 a group of
masked gunmen opened fire in the upscale
Westgate shopping mall in central Niobe
the siege lasted for days in the end 67
people were left dead and 200 wounded
the militant Somali group al-shabaab
which has ties to al Qaeda claimed
responsibility for the attack the group
said it was payback for Kenya's military
intervention in Somalia in 2011 Kenyan
troops joined an African Union campaign
to bring order to Somalia the top order
of business destroy al-shabaab it's been
more than two years since Kenyan troops
arrived to Somalia but they failed to
contain Somalia's unrest and now
Somalia's violence is spilling across
the border into Kenya and threatening
its vital shipping and tourism
industries
now Kenya is also fighting al-shabaab at
home and the main battlefield is a
crowded Nairobi neighborhood called East
Lake with over 150 Somalis living there
it's become known as little more ad
issue ever since the Westgate attacks
the residents of little Mogadishu have
been caught between a Kenyan government
determined to root out militants on its
soil often with an iron fist an Islamic
extremist to a recruiting the young men
living there the police and the
government needs somebody to blame and
we're talking over a decade or more that
this community has built up and for a
large part has never been anything other
than a valuable contributor to narrow
Bea's economy there's a great deal of
businesses that go on there and there
hasn't been excessive tension between
Somalis from Somalia living in East Lee
local Kenyan Somalis and the wider
Kenyan population as we've seen an
increase in international terrorism
coming into Kenya whether it's actual
attacks or the threat of attacks
obviously that tension will suddenly
have risen lehel Maha Dene is a member
of Eastleigh based hip-hop collective y
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features a revolving roster of refugee
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its songs focused mostly on love
friendship and life in exile but the
rise of al-shabaab has inspired more
serious songs today the group is using
its music to fight back against
extremists and give a voice to the young
generation of Somalis in Kenya Heligan
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in 2011 UN officials linked this most
net east late al Shabab militants a
report accused the mosque leadership of
fundraising and recruiting for the
terrorist group but they deny these
accusations and now it's unclear who's
really in charge today
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okay it's a hard thing to ping down as
to how much of that area truly is under
the control of Shabaab or people
sympathizing with Shabaab important
distinction all those under the
direction of schibetta if you were to
listen to the kenyan police and
authorities the place is rife with jihad
ease and guys who have guns and weapons
and very much ready to use them it's
obviously a very difficult thing by
definition to identify somebody who is a
perfectly innocent Kenyan Somali running
a business in East Lee and somebody
who's recently arrived on a bus from
Mogadishu or from kiss Maya with a plan
to chuck a grenade at a church on a
Sunday in Nairobi Kenya has suffered
several terrorist attacks since the West
game massacre including a series of
explosions outside an East a restaurant
on March 31st that killed six Kenya's
government has responded with a
crackdown on the Somali residents of
East Lee after the March 31st attack
police rounded up hundreds of Somalis
including women and children and detain
them in Nairobi's Casa Rani Stadium
indiscriminate round ups like this have
become regular since the Westgate attack
some are now a KOCO Gary
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rather go yeah very nice and I know she
doesn't know who jobs are now art when I
see come on my skin what will unit our
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lucky to knock you say they loved or
when a passe talks idea come on up SAS
cops idea no country can stop every
terrorist attack but we can be better
prepared and be more effective in
dealing with it then we are doing at the
moment one of the things I've had said
by Kenyan leadership is that the problem
is Somali refugees in Kenya Ethiopia has
a lot of Somali refugees why don't we
have terrorist attacks them there are
our guests as refugees and the
protection and their daily well-being is
the responsibility of us the hosts so I
think it is a tragedy that in fact we
are blaming the victims themselves what
we as the refugee agency do not want to
see is refugees being made a scapegoat
we have the reports we know that they
have been the victims of extortion they
have been rounded up on the basis of
prejudice when you know there are human
rights abuses going on these are well
documented we also know that after the
Westgate attack many of them have been
afraid to go out of their home Kenya is
known as a corrupt country it's one of
the most corrupt countries on earth that
comes from the government it's most
famously entrenched in the police force
I think it's probably very easy for
heavy booted pretty well armed kenyan
police to conduct these kind of raids
pretty indiscriminately so if I were one
of those Somali chaps who came over in
you know 1998 2000 2001 and set up a
meat stall or a book shop I'd be pretty
worried that the police aren't going to
distinguish between me and that kid
who's down in the mosque listening to
radical preaching every Friday and being
prepared to act on it
each day residents who dare to speak out
against al-shabaab and now targets not
only for their extremist neighbors but
the priests as well
members of the musical group while your
heart will sue regularly receive threats
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