Why would the army lie that they had killed insurgents when they had actually killed Kenyan citizens. Someone was supporting propaganda as a means of winning war. But when lives are lost because of negligence or stupid mistakes, something must be amiss.
A lie is a lie from whatever angle you look at it.
Sample this C/P
They warned the occupants of the boat, whom they suspected to be Al-Shabaab militants, to surrender, but the "terrorists" ignored their calls, hence the shooting.
"We managed to kill 18 Al-Shabaab fighters," the military reported, "but a few others escaped with injuries."
However, the families of the affected fishermen insist that there was not a single terrorist soul aboard MV Nawal when it set off for Ras Kamboni a week earlier.
A day after reports of the incident trickled to Nairobi, Mr Omar Msham, a village elder at Ngomeni who claimed he owned the sunken vessel, said all the 10 fishermen had identified themselves as Kenyans when they surrendered to the navy officers shortly before the shooting.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201111200154.html
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