"They found bulldozers crushing their houses” – Kenyan activist on forced evictions

Publication date: 22 March 2012 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Minicah Hamisi Otieno was a resident of Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum in Nairobi, Kenya, for nine years, until she was evicted without warning by the authorities. Now she is an activist against forced evictions, and Secretary of Nairobi’s Rapid Response Team, a city-wide group of informal settlement residents and local human rights defenders. Listen to Minicah’s account of a forced eviction which took place in February 2012, during which three people died: -->Your browser does not have the necessary…

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