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Standard prescription to insecurity seems to be collective punishment

All Kenyans are angry about the brutal attack on the police at Baragoi that took away the lives of dozens of officers and our sympathies are with their families. They died in the line of duty while fighting criminals.

What irks many Kenyans though is how they were killed, and why none of the criminals died. In police parlance, they call it a botched operation, and the police boss blamed it on the field commanders who planned the operation.

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