09/04/2015
Kenya official compares terror victims to 'cockroaches'
Kenyan officials admitted Thursday that they made mistakes in their handling of last week#8217;s terror attack on Garissa University College, but one senior police official seemed to put the onus on the victims, saying people should fight back and quot;don't just be killed like cockroaches.quot; At least 148 people died in the attack, including at least 142 students. Accounts from survivors suggest that most of those who got out alive did so either by running away, hiding or playing dead among the bodies of the slain, not by fighting back against the heavily armed gunmen. Somali-based Shabab militants claimed responsibility for the massacre. Students have told how one gunman ran into an...
