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The three defendants.
A Kenyan court found two people guilty of their involvement in the attack on the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi in 2013, when a group of al-Shabaab members ran over at least 67 people. People are convicted of stamping for crimes of terrorism and support for a terrorist group.
A third defendant is acquitted of all charges. The penalty has yet to be announced.
The human rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) faces the verdict and wonders what role the three defendants actually played.
– The attackers are believed to have fled and the brains behind them are still unknown. These three people must have had very marginal roles, if they had any, says Otsieno Namwaya, an African researcher at HRW.
The attack on Westgate is the deadliest Islamist attack in Kenya’s history, with the exception of Al Qaeda’s bombing of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.
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