kenya again!!!!!!!!!

The crisis in Kenya is an affirmation of my thread which i posted on May 30 2007 titled 'WHOSE PROBLEM'. The Kenyans are presently killing themselves under the pretense of election fraud.
The killing has left more than 500 people dead and over 250,000 has fled there homes.
After independence, Kenya promoted rapid economic growth through public investment, encouragement of smallholder agricultural production, and incentives for private (often foreign) industrial investment.
With a booming economy and tourist trade, Kenya had been considered a bright spot in East Africa. But its Dec. 27 election, which was supposed to be the pride of African democracy, sparked a spiral of violence after candidate Raila Odinga and his supporters accused incumbent President Mwai Kibaki of rigging the results.
What started as a political protest quickly turned into something much more bloody and dangerous, the recent event in Kenya brings to my memory Rwanda genocide, it all started like this. As it is now, the fight is a result of long harbored feeling between the country's two largest ethnic groups--the Luo, who support Odinga, and the Kikuyu, who back Kibaki. The two groups have been wary of each other since Kenya achieved independence from Britain in 1963, and the Luo have never held the presidency.
Two Olympian were macheted and burnt to death and there offence was for being a native of Luo, On Jan. 1, a church in Kiambaa where Kikuyu had sought refuge was burned by an angry mob. At least 50 people, many of them women and children, died in the attack.
Issues like this will hardly happen in the western world which actually makes me wonder if James Watson claims, "that Africans are of lower IQ than the westerners is true". I only can appeal and pray for our brothers and sisters in Kenya to shield sword and focus on peace.
Africans let be wise and let move on.
Enough of one step forward, a thousand backward.
Enough of ethnocentrism
Enough of prejudices
Enough is enough......

New Beginning!!!

It a new year, New beginning
It is a privilege to be alive in this New Year,
Another opportunity for all that are gone to come back for good,
An opportunity to make some more right,
An opportunity to be our brother’s keeper,
An opportunity to share more love and be more humane,
An opportunity to be much more sincere and honest in our dealings.
Basically an opportunity to live a better life than the previous.
Looking behind at the events of 2007, from the good to the bad and ugly, one cannot help but be grateful to the Supreme Being for having mercy on us.
As we go through the unknown New Year, I pray we achieve and get closer to our dreams.
IT IS A NEW BEGINNING