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I have no empathy or sympathy for those boys gunned down in Eastleigh

I've been trying to decide what my feelings really are about the Eastleigh shootings. Gory and inhumane as they were.

BUT, when I draw parallels with what happened with the Mungiki fellas, I think I have my answer. Police had to employ unorthodox means to silence Mungiki. 'Normal' ways of arrests and hauling them to court were seemingly not working. Often, there was no hard 'evidence' against them judicially and they'd soon be back on the streets and villages even when it was known who they really were.

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