Isiolo massacre
{{Short description|Massacre of ethnic Somali by Kenyan security}}
{{EngvarB|date=May 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}}
{{Infobox civilian attack
| title = Isiolo massacre
{{Location map|Kenya|lat_deg = 0.3556|lon_deg = 37.5833|caption=}}
| location = Isiolo, Isiolo County, Kenya
| coordinates = {{coord|00|21|N|37|35|E|region:KE|display=inline,title}}
| date = 1960s
| type = Massacre
| fatalities = 2700+
}}
{{History of Kenya}}
The Isiolo Massacre refers collectively to a series of massacres of ethnic Somalis by Kenyan security personnel in the 1960s in Isiolo County, Kenya.
Massacre
During the Shifta War in the 1960s, civilians of the Kenyan Somali community were murdered by government soldiers, including the 1967 killing of 18 elders in the Isiolo Mosque during prayer time at around noon.{{Cite web|last=Guleid|first=Mohamed|title=The change narrative sweeping through NEP|url=https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/amp/commentary/article/2001287706/the-change-narrative-sweeping-through-nep|access-date=2021-01-12|website=The Standard|language=en-us}} There were an estimated 2,700 Somali Kenyans killed Isiolo County at the hand of Kenyan security forces.{{Cite news|last=Harden|first=Blaine|date=1988-04-10|title=FOES_AND DEATH_STALK KENYAN NOMADS|language=en-US|work=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/04/10/foes_and-death_stalk-kenyan-nomads/0c5f7fe1-2829-448b-ae05-ec66a4bf0ea4/|access-date=2021-01-12|issn=0190-8286}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
Category:1960s murders in Africa
Category:20th-century mass murder in Kenya
Category:Kenya–Somalia relations
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