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Kenya's Tribal Unraveling
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The latest atrocity: 50 people burned alive in a church where they had sought refuge from the widening chaos. One Kenyan blogger weeps:
I feel that the people of Kenya have been completely robbed of everything they have gained over the last 40 years. We lacked few things but at least we were generally a fair people. I feel that the change we thought we had in 2005 was just an illusion...
I feel that Kenyans have been robbed of something that can never be valued their electoral process.
Under these circumstances, tribalism flares, as it has in Iraq:
I was told it's Kenya against kikuyus ... I guess we are no longer Kenyans.
The Red Cross is calling the post-election meltdown a "national disaster." Thousands are now displaced from their homes. The best global round-up is, as usual, at Global Voices. You'll learn more nuance and diversity of view from the posts of Kenyan bloggers than from the MSM.
(Photo: A Kenyan demonstrator is wounded after he was beataen by anti-riot police, 31 December 2007 at Kibera slum in Nairobi where riots against a controversial declaration of incumbent Mwai Kibaki as President of Kenya swung into a third day. By Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty.)
