Monday, January 28, 2008

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......

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