00:00Two people were shot dead and several others injured on Wednesday as fresh protests erupted in Nairobi
00:05and across major Kenyan cities, marking the anniversary of last year's deadly anti-tax demonstrations
00:12that left over 60 people dead.
00:14In Nairobi, human rights activists led calls for justice for those killed last year.
00:19We are here to demand justice for our Mashujaz.
00:2164 Kenyans were killed last year in cold blood.
00:24Up to this point in time, not a single officer has been held to account.
00:27So we are here to demand justice.
00:30Justice in terms of compensation, justice in terms of arrest of those officers who are involved,
00:36justice in terms of police reforms, because too many Kenyans are losing their lives in the hands of the police.
00:41So we want justice for everyone so that we can move forward.
00:44Angry protesters, many of them young people, denounced what they described as
00:48President William Ruto's poor leadership and growing authoritarianism.
00:53We are seeing people of God are here because of this specific day.
01:02To say Ruto Hantam because of his governance is very bad, very terrible.
01:06People are being abducted.
01:07People are being killed.
01:09We just want to say we are fed up as a youth.
01:11The majority are the youth.
01:14The police are producing force and it's very bad as this race.
01:18We don't want him anymore.
01:20Protests have spread to Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru and Yahururu.
01:25Despite a government warning that Wednesday was a normal working day,
01:28thousands took to the street honoring victims of past police crackdowns
01:32and voicing their frustrations with corruption, rising living costs and unaddressed human rights abuses.
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