[CPEO-MEF] City law firm to sue over ordnance allegedly left after training

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Army targeted for Kenya deaths

City law firm to sue over ordnance allegedly left after training

James Astill in Nairobi
Saturday March 24, 2001
The Guardian

A City law firm is preparing to sue the British Army on behalf of hundreds
of Kenyans killed or maimed by ordnance left lying around after training
exercises in northern Kenya.
On a fact-finding mission to the army's training grounds in rural Kenya this
week, a British legal team saw unexploded artillery shells and grenades
scattered where farmers graze their herds. They recorded more than 200
related accidents, up to half of them fatal and 90% of them involving
children.

For more see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,462298,00.html



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