On July 7 every year, Kenyans honor the pro-democracy uprising of 1990. However, this year’s protests over heightened taxes and corruption were met with live ammunition, mass arrests, and shoot-on-sight orders.

Kenya's President William Ruto said on Wednesday that police should shoot protesters who vandalise businesses in the leg to incapacitate them, two days after 31 people were killed during nationwide anti-government demonstrations.