George Paul Oulu also known as Oulu GPO (died March 5, 2009) was a Kenyan
human rights activist
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and a former Vice Chairman of the Students Organization of Nairobi University(
SONU
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);the representative student body at the
University of Nairobi
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.
His 2009 assassination is widely attributed
to his work in documenting police killings.
Human rights work
Oulu was credited with an important role in investigative work behind police killings in Kenya,
including ''The Cry of Blood — Report on Extra-Judicial Killings and Disappearances'',
which was widely publicised by
WikiLeaks
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.
Assassination
Oulu was shot and killed while sitting in rush hour traffic in
Nairobi
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on March 5, 2009, along with lawyer and founder of the Oscar Foundation,
Oscar Kamau Kingara
Oscar Kamau Kingara (July 14, 1971 - March 5, 2009) was a Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist. Kingara was the founder and director of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic, a human rights organization based in Nairobi. His 2009 assassin ...
.
Following the assassination, WikiLeaks called for witness reports and described Kingara and Oulu as "Wikileaks-related senior human rights activists".
See also
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Human rights in Kenya
Human rights in Kenya internationally maintain a variety of mixed opinions; specifically, political freedoms are highlighted as being poor and homosexuality remains a crime. In the Freedom in the World index for 2017, Kenya held a rating of '4' fo ...
References
2009 deaths
Kenyan human rights activists
Assassinated activists
Year of birth missing
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