3 Rifles na Kenya (wanda ake yiwa laƙabi The Scarlets; wataƙila Bataliya ta 3, The Kenya Rifles) bataliyar soja ce, babbar ƙungiyar Sojojin Sojojin Kenya.

3rd Kenya Rifles Battalion

Ya bibiyi tarihinsa zuwa ga rundunonin soja masu zaman kansu na farko da Kamfanin Burtaniya na Gabashin Afirka ya dauka a 1888 don kare muradun kasuwancinsa da kuma yanki. Daga baya bataliyar ta zama Bataliya ta 3, Kings African Rifles da aka kafa a Fort Jesus a Mombasa a cikin 1900. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Farko, bataliya ɗin ta shiga balaguro da yaƙi da Jamusawa a Gabashin Afirka. Lokacin da Jamhuriyar Somaliya ta sami 'yancin kai a shekarar 1960, ta shiga cikin yakin Shifta lokacin da bataliyar ta samu umarni musamman daga Laftanar-Karnar Jackson Mulinge.

Matsayin Yanzu

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Bataliya dai na ci gaba da aikinta na tsaro ne a karkashin babbar rundunar sojojin Kenya, kuma a baya-bayan nan ta tsunduma cikin yaki da kungiyar Al-Shabaab a kudancin Somaliya. A wani lokaci sashin kuma yana shiga cikin ayyukan biki kamar faretin kasa da sauran al'amuran jaha. Bataliya ta lashe kofuna da dama a fagage daban-daban na gasa kamar harbin bindiga, wasannin motsa jiki, dambe da kwallon kafa.[1]

Bataliyar tana da alaƙa da Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire da kuma Rejimentar Wiltshire na Sojojin Burtaniya.

Ranar Narung'ombe

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A kowace ranar 19 ga Yuli, bataliya ta yi bikin ranar tsarin mulkinta da ake yi wa lakabi da 'Ranar Narung'ombe' don girmama sojojin da suka mutu yayin da suke aiki a sashin.[2] Sunan wannan ranar ne bayan yakin Narungombe da ya faru a Tanzaniya lokacin yakin duniya na farko. Daga baya an karɓi kwanan wata a matsayin ranar tsarin mulki saboda rawar da ƙungiyar ta yi a lokacin yaƙin.

Manazarta

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  1. Kenya Yearbook Editorial Board 2010
  2. "The 3rd Battalion, The Kenya Rifles Observe Narung'ombe Day"