mo4ch:>Vigilante ‘death squads’ using Facebook & Twitter to hunt gang suspects in Kenya | Mo4ch News

Reports have emerged of Kenyan vigilante groups using Facebook and Twitter to hunt down and summarily execute young men suspected of being gang members, before posting gruesome content of the aftermath online.“They profile them on Facebook, after one week or a month they shoot them, and put pictures of their dead bodies on Facebook,” Wilfred Olal from the Dandora Community Justice Centre told a community meeting. An average of six suspected gangsters are profiled and killed each month.The disturbing photos and videos are incredibly graphic, showing close-ups of heads cleaved open by bullets, desecrated corpses, and the aftermath of ‘necklacing’ – a gruesome practice in which a rubber tire filled with petrol is wrapped around a live victim’s chest and arms before being set on fire.Also on rt.comVigilante group recruits 550 people to counter Birmingham’s rise in violent crime“The first unofficial police Facebook account appeared under the name Hessy wa Kayole [Hessy from Kayole],” Dunca…