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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet….
Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O
Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make
mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
V:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth.
Psalms
122:6 Pray for the peace of
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A New Burst of Killings in Kenya
Source: CNN
29 January 2008 – Even as Kenya's President and main opposition leader launched negotiations aimed breaking their violent political impasse, the crisis reached a troubling new low with news that a recently elected member of parliament had been gunned down outside his home. At the same time, a new wave of ethnic violence has broken out across the country.
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Angry crowds of Luos and Kalenjin also squared off along a road in the tourist town of Naivasha, an hour north. The clashes in Naivasha reached a near-breaking point on Tuesday, when army helicopters fired what police said were rubber bullets into crowds of demonstrators facing off against each other along a major road. "We know very well the police are not doing their work, they are also political, they are favoring one side, they are not caring for all people," said Odinga supporter Evans Maremi.
Naivasha and the nearby city of Nakuru have seen a spate of killings in recent days as Kikuyus launched revenge attacks against people they say were responsible for attacks that killed dozens of their tribesmen further north and pushed hundreds of thousands from their homes. Those killings have changed the tenor of the violence, which the opposition initially characterized as a spontaneous surge of rage among people furious about the vote. It now appears to have devolved into simple revenge killing.
Indeed, the fear was that the violence would begin to spiral out of control into a cycle of ethnic attacks as members of Kenya's different ethnic groups act on grievances they have harbored for decades over land and the perceived inequitable distribution of resources. That, in turn, could sink Kenya's economy, whose chief engines are horticulture, tourism and tea. All three industries have been crippled.
Still, amid the violence, there was some hope that Annan's mediation could lead to a compromise at last after a month of bloodletting. The death toll is now difficult to estimate, but it is believed that some 850 people have been killed since the vote, with about 150 of them killed since Friday, when Kikuyus launched what appeared to have been revenge attacks in Nakuru. "Today our country is under serious threat of sliding into anarchy," parliamentary speaker Kenneth Marende said.
The one thing that
Kenya has going for it right now, it seems, is that the world is
refusing to let the crisis fade into the background. The African
Union has promised to consider the issue in a summit that begins on
Thursday. And the special U.N. adviser on preventing genocide,
Francis Deng, has warned that Kenya's politicians could be held
responsible for any violation of international law. That came just
days after the New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report
concluding that there was some indication that the violence had been
planned beforehand, particularly in areas where Odinga is popular.
"There are evidently hidden hands organizing it now," Britain's
Minister for Africa Mark Malloch Brown said as he stopped in Kenya
to lend London's weight to the mediation efforts. "The targeting is
very specific."
Comments: Ethnic violence is starting to take hold in Kenya and if the situation isn’t brought under control quickly, genocide will erupt. Since independence, Kenya has maintained remarkable stability amid crises in neighbouring countries but that has all changed with the recent elections. Kenya is a country with great ethnic diversity consisting of Kikuyu 23%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 11%, Kamba 10%, Kisii 6%, Meru 5%, Maasai 1.8%, Turkana 1.5%, Embu 1.2% and others. Already some of these tribal groups are acting on revenge against other tribal groups and these ethnic clashes between the warring tribes could degenerate into another Rwanda-like genocide. The nation of Rwanda was engulfed in a horrific genocide in which some 800,000 members of the Tutsi ethnic group were murdered by Hutu extremists. Before Kenya goes over the brink the UN must act quickly and learn from the mistakes of the past. Kenya is on the brink of catastrophe.
Mt 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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