Poll violence was well-planned: report

KNCHR maintains that all persons adversely mentioned were given a chance to defend themselves but they never did so. The report captures the funding of the attacks and counter-attacks: “Both the attacking forces and the counter-attacking forces were transported into areas of operation in vehicles. The violence was funded and sustained mainly by local politicians and business people to support costs such as transport of attackers, weapons and other logistics.”

A strategy the KNCHR investigators say was common in all the theatres of conflict was the barricading of roads by the militia intent on identifying, killing or otherwise injuring travellers from non-local communities. The report states that this pattern of behaviour was particularly notable in the Rift Valley, Nyanza, Western, Coast and Central regions.