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Military must operate within Bill of Rights and protect right to life

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KDF officers on patrol along Moi Avenue, Nairobi, on June 27, 2024. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

This week's deployment had me frantically searching online for international human rights and humanitarian standards to come to terms with the unprecedented situation of the Kenya Defense Forces being invited to police the right to assembly.

Now Justice Lawrence Mugambi has declared Article 241(b) was properly invoked to protect life and property, what standards must the Inspector General of Police, Chief of the Defence Forces and the President uphold?

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