"We are questioning the seven army officers to establish why they left their homeland to seek refuge in Kenya," Eastern Province police commander Thomas Chigamba told AFP by phone from the regional capital Embu.

"According to international law, at the end of the day if we find that they did not do any crime at home, we shall hand them over to UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) to screen them," he explained.

In May, Kenya repatriated some 350 Ethiopian students who fled their country alleging they were target of government intimidation.

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