Kenya’s pact of silence with its military is breaking | Protests

When the Kenyan government blocked the public screening of a BBC documentary investigating the military’s role in the killing of protesters, it was about more than censorship. It was about protecting a decades-old pact – a silent agreement between the military, the state, the media, and the public: the army stays out of overt politics, and in return, no one looks too closely at what it’s doing.

That pact is now under threat, and the backlash has been ferocious.

Government-aligned MPs…