NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police said on Thursday they will charge one of their officers with murder after he was filmed shooting dead two protesters last month in what rights groups and the opposition slammed as an extrajudicial killing.
The deaths were among nearly 100 killings by police during protests over a disputed December 27 election that returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and plunged the east African nation into a crisis that harmed its image of stability.
Police identified Kirui from video footage of a policeman firing his assault rifle at the two men, who had earlier been in a group of protesters that had thrown rocks in his direction.
Neither Kirui nor a representative were immediately available for comment.
"The commissioner of police wishes to guarantee the public that the force is committed to internationally acknowledged professional standards of policing," a police statement said.
(Writing by Bryson Hull, editing by Daniel Wallis and Philippa Fletcher)
