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Elections Spark Mass Violence In Kenya
January 3rd, 2008
Before I get to Kenya; speaking of election violence, is there anyone who can’t see that the Pakistani military killed Benazir Bhutto and are now covering up. I mean really, it’s so obvious.
Now about Kenya…
Kenya bloodshed leads to accusations of genocide
By C. Bryson Hull and Andrew Cawthorne
NAIROBI (Reuters) - President Mwai Kibaki’s government accused rival Raila Odinga’s party of unleashing “genocide” in Kenya on Wednesday as the death toll from tribal violence over a disputed election passed 300.
“It is becoming clear that these well-organized acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing were well planned, financed and rehearsed by Orange Democratic Movement leaders prior to the general elections,” said the statement read by Lands Minister Kivutha Kibwana on behalf of his colleagues.
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Odinga’s party shot back that the government was also “bordering on genocide” by ordering police to shoot protesters enraged by Kibaki’s victory in the December 27 polls that international observers said fell short of democratic standards.
Both sides alleged massive rigging.
Kenya is an important ally of the West in its counter-terrorism efforts, takes growing money flows from China, and is used to being the peacemaker in African hot-spots like Somalia and Sudan rather than the problem.
Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe was targeted in the initial violence, but revenge killings by Kikuyus are on the rise in mayhem that rights groups say has been exacerbated by a police crackdown on rioting and looting.
Apparently offering an olive branch to the ODM, which draws most of its support from western Kenya’s Luo tribe, Kibaki invited all members of the new opposition-dominated parliament to a meeting at State House in Nairobi.
But no opposition MPs attended as Odinga demanded outside mediation: “We cannot dialogue with a thief,” he told reporters. “We are not interested in talking with Kibaki without international mediation.” Continued at rueters.com…
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It is really heartbreaking to see all the trauma, drama and crime going on in Africa. I often wonder if Africa will ever get itself in order.
That have to expell the corrupt politicians and the foriegn interlopes. But really, the deck is largely stacked against them with the world financial systems run by the west and intentional keeping them in economic deprevation.
There are some relatively good success stories on the continent, we just never hear about them.