In early March 2009, WikiLeaks reported that two of their writers had been killed while doing research in Kenya.

"On Thursday afternoon March 5, Oscar Kamau Kingara, director of the Kenyan based Oscar legal aid Foundation, and its programme coordinator, John Paul Oulo, were shot at close range in their car less than a mile from President Kibaki's residence," a statement from WikiLeaks said.

The Oscar foundation had documented 6,452 "enforced disappearances" by Kenyan police and 1,721 extrajudicial killings.