List of wars involving Kenya
This is a list of wars involving Kenya since its independence from United Kingdom in 1963.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | President of Kenya |
Kenyan losses | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Military | Civilian | |||||
Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1956) |
KLFA | Defeat
|
20,000+[2] |
|||
Shifta War (1963–1967) |
NFDLM | Victory
|
(Civilians and combatants) | |||
Mount Elgon Insurgency (2005–2008) |
SLDF | Victory
|
(Civilians and combatants) | |||
War in Somalia (2011–) |
Hizbul Islam |
Ongoing
|
References
- ↑ The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army (1994) p. 346.
- ↑ Anderson, David (2005). Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-84719-9.
- ↑ Jacob Bercovitch and Richard Jackson, International Conflict : A Chronological Encyclopedia of Conflicts and Their Management 1945-1995 (1997)
- ↑ Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch (2008-04-02). "Kenya: Army and Rebel Militia Commit War Crimes in Mt. Elgon (Human Rights Watch, 3-4-2008)". Hrw.org. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
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