It does not seem that the violence in Kenya will end some time soon. People in the streets are attacked and lynched to death. According to the International Crisis Group, armed groups on both the opposition and government sides are mobilizing for fresh attacks.
For those not aware, the roots of this ongoing Kenyan violence erupted ever since President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner of the Kenyan presidential election held on December 27, 2007. Kibaki was accused of widespread farud and irregularities, and his victory let to this civil unrest. Post Kibaki’s controversial victory, Raila Odinga’s (Kibaki’s opponent) supporters went on a violent rampage in several parts of Kenya. After police shot a number of demonstrators, violence escalated and was mostly directed Kikuyu people (the community to which Kibaki is a member).
Kofi Annan, ex-UN chief has been leading mediation talks in Nairobi. Though the two warring sides have agreed in principle to a grand conciliation, nothing has happened in reality. Even US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Kenya to support the talks.
Hopefully, some time in the very near future some settlement can be worked out, because this continuing violence is already having serious ramifications across East Africa, especially countries like Burundi, Uganda and Rwanda.
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It seems the violence in Kenya is unending. God save Kenya.
LET us understand one simple fact.
THE violence and mob rule in KENYA is not about an election- its about tribal chiefs, greedy MPs and well heeled business men who have deliberately, through threats and intimidation, orchestrated the young into a frenzy of butchery and bestialiy .
WHY?
Nothing more than GREED and lust for power.
Mediation is deliberately being thrawted
to give these morons time to create more havoc and by so doing they open the door to marshall law which will close KENYAN borders to the outside world.
K.ANNAN has an envious task..YOU CAN ALL HELP by shouting loud and clear that these politicians MUST listen and act NOW , or face an international axe
and international investigation of the highest degree.
THIS MUST END NOW before KENYA drops into an abyss of no return and the gentle folk of KENYA become the corpses of tomorrow.