Mount Elgon insurgency
The Mount Elgon insurgency was a conflict that started in 2005 when the Sabaot Land Defence Force militia revolted in the Mount Elgon area, Western Kenya.Background
In the 1920s and the 1930s, British Kenya has displaced many native Sabaots in the modern-day Trans-Nzoia County. Most of their arable lands were given to new settlers, who became farmers in the area.
The Kenyan Government gave later in the 1960s a amount of land to landless families after its independence in 1963 from the UK.Reportedly, local church elders know of 200 people who have gone missing since being arrested; about 1,500 have been formally charged.
