George Paul Oulu also known as Oulu GPO (died March 5, 2009) was a Kenyan

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and a former Vice Chairman of the Students Organization of Nairobi University(

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);the representative student body at the

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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

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Assassination

Oulu was shot and killed while sitting in rush hour traffic in

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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".

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Human rights work

Assassination

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