Geneva/Nairobi, November 6, 2016 (SSNA) — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) accuses Kenya of violating human rights over forced deportation of South Sudanese prominent rebel official and criticized Nairobi for violating what it described as violation of “international refugee law.
The accusation comes as Kenyan police kidnapped a South Sudanese rebel spokesman and deport him to volatile war-ravaged South Sudan.
The UNHCR says Kenya action amounts to “a violation of the principle of non-refoulement, which is the cornerstone of international refugee law.”
Kenya, a guarantor of the Geneva Convention, has been labeled by UN observers as the 21st century abuser of United Nations international refugee law.
Nairobi reacted angrily Wednesday after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon dismissed its General who was the chief of the agency peacekeeping mission in the troubled South Sudan.
“UNHCR is deeply concerned about the well-being of Mr James Gatdet Dak, SPLA IO Spokesperson, who was returned to South Sudan from Kenya on Monday, 2 November. Mr Dak had previously been granted refugee status by the Kenyan authorities,” UNHCR says.
“Mr Dak’s forced return is a violation of the principle of non-refoulement, which is the cornerstone of international refugee law,” the agency added.
The refugee agency says its repeated requests to Nairobi to not deport Dak to Juba were ignored by the highest office of Kenyan government.
After failed attempts to prevent the deportation of rebel official to Juba, the UNHCR urges Juba to treat Mr. Dak “in accordance with human rights law and standards.”
The South Sudan News Agency was told by the UNCHR sources that Kenya’s decision to deport James Dak to Juba was baffling and that several influential members of the UNCHR human rights body have already declared (secretly) Kenya as a nation with questionable position on South Sudan’s civil war.
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Kenya is violating human rights,and must be punished for that,by international sanction
that is nonsense, Kenyan gov,t didn’t commit any violation but he make a good decision to deport the troublesome man to his home country so that he(Gadet) will continue with the incitement of war.
Why UNHCR allowed refuges to joined rebels?
To me you are the first series violating of International Human Right Laws.
I thank Kenyan authorities.
The poor administration of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta must carry the cross as gross human right violators . It is a great capital punishments sin for Kenya authorities to intentional deported James Gatdet Dak and unlawfully handed him to his adversaries in Juba. What a gross violation of Jeneva Convention of Refugee Right of non refoulment?