Human rights organization Amnesty International said Kenya's decision to move all refugees and asylum seekers in the country into two camps in rural violate international law.Amnesty International said the decision issued by the Kenyan government related resettlement of refugees and asylum seekers to camps in the countryside are discriminatory and violate the freedom of movement.
Amnesty International's expert on East African affairs Kathryn Achilles confirms such restrictions would lead to more serious human rights abuses in the refugee camps are overcrowded and unsafe.
Thousands of refugees are moved to the Dadaab refugee camp complex in the vast northeastern Kenya. The refugees from other countries will be sent to Kakuma, a camp near the border with South Sudan.
Kenya issued the transfer orders on Tuesday after a series of grenade and bomb attacks, many of them in the district of Eastleigh, Nairobi, which is dominated by refugees and immigrants from Somalia. (Find Update)
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