Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has exposed torture and appalling levels of sexual violence in a conflict in western Kenya.

It says people there are caught up in fighting which it claims is being ignored by the international community.

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They are victims of "indiscriminate violence" on both sides, MSF says.

The MSF report paints a picture of a civilian population caught between a heavy-handed military - accused of extra judicial killings - and a vicious militia, the SLDF, which has taken up arms in the fertile Mount Elgon region over a land allocation scheme it considers unfair.

The report sets out testimonies of men, suspected to have been militia members, being subjected to torture and appalling levels of sexual violence at the hands of the police and the military.

MSF has also condemned the cramped conditions in which suspects are held during pre-trial detention and warns that the violent response of the military is simply making things worse for an already traumatised civilian population.

(BBC)

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