Clashes have broken out at protests in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, marking a year since people stormed parliament at the peak of antigovernment demonstrations. Protesters rallying against police brutality and government corruption in Nairobi on Wednesday clashed with police, who hurled tear gas canisters and wielded batons, injuring demonstrators. Several people were treated in hospital for gunshot wounds, according to local media and the Reuters news agency, citing a medical source. It was not immediately clear who shot them. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to commemorate last year’s youth-led demonstrations against tax rises, during which at least 60 people were killed by security forces, according to rights groups. Among the crowds in the capital, some waved Kenyan flags and placards with pictures of demonstrators killed last year and chanted “Ruto must go”, referring to President William Ruto, whose proposed tax hikes triggered last year’s youth-led protests. “I’ve come here as a Kenyan youth to protest. It is our right for the sake of our fellow Kenyans who were killed last year. The police are here … they are supposed to protect us, but they kill us,” Eve, a 24-year-old woman, told the AFP news agency.

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