article_snippet.sent: And in October 2011, Kenya Defense Forces invaded Somalia, where Al-Shabaab is based, with the crushing Operation Linda Nchi, Swahili for "Protect the Country.
article_snippet.sent: Kenyan special forces moved in at the campus located about 90 miles from Somalia's southern border.
article_snippet.sent: Parallel to Operation Linda Nchi, Kenya has gone after ethnic Somalis within ethnic Somalis own borders triggering protest by Human Rights Watch, which has accused the government of ethnic profiling and mistreatment.
article_snippet.sent: In a 2011 case, Kenyan authorities reportedly rounded up ethnic Somalis in Garissa and let Kenyan authorities sit in the mud, while beating some of Kenyan authorities, HRW alleged.
article_snippet.sent: Shortly after the bus carrying some 60 people departed Mandera, near Somalia's border, Al-Shabaab gunmen stopped Al-Shabaab gunmen in a hilly area and barged in.
article_snippet.sent: A day after the attack, Kenyan security forces retaliated with an offensive across the border into Somalia.
article_snippet.sent: Last May, tour companies evacuated vacationers from Kenya after the UK and United States issued alerts that there was a high threat of attacks.
article_snippet.sent: For four days, four attackers turned the luxury shopping mall in the capital Nairobi into a cauldron of blood, smoke and rubble.
article_snippet.sent: Part of the luxury shopping mall collapsed as Kenyan security forces fought for control.
article_snippet.sent: Al-Shabaab said the attack was retaliation for Kenya participation in Africa Union military operations in Somalia.
article_snippet.sent: In short succession, bombs detonated at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania back then.