Some Kenyans have raised concerns about the way British forces treat local residents and the environment in arid, bandit-plagued areas north of Mt. Kenya where they train.
Soldiers are seen during a training session under the British Army Training Unit Kenya , at a camp in Laikipia, Kenya September 30, 2018. / Photo: Reuters Archive
A parliamentary committee in Kenya has launched an inquiry into alleged human rights violations and ethical breaches by a British army training unit that has been active for decades in the country the UK calls"our defence partner of choice in East Africa."Britain has roughly 200 military personnel permanently based in Kenya.
In late 2021, Kenyan police said they were reopening the case of a local woman, Agnes Wanjiru, allegedly killed by a British soldier in 2012 and whose body was found in a septic tank.
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