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GSU and AP units charge into a residential section of Kibera shooting live ammunition and tear gasThe last day of outlawed protests in Kenya saw a great deal of bloodshed in the Nairobi slum of Kibera. MSF has reported 15 gunshot wounds, and three deaths at the time of writing. Police and military used excessive force on demonstraters after they destroyed a portion of the train track route that leads to Uganda, effectively cutting off supply routes. They used tear gas and live ammunition on unarmed protesters.When I arrived in Kibera it was a virtual war zone. General Service Units (GSU), or the Red Berets as they are sometimes referred to, and Administrative Police (AP) were firing live rounds at will into a neighborhood of Kibera, injuring innocent bystanders, one of whom was in his home. They seemed rather to be enjoying themselves, displaying a kind of bloodthirstiness which I had not as yet witnessed.UPDATE:
Final official count for Kibera on Friday January 18 was 4 dead, 10 gunshot wounds, and 3 other injuries.

GSU and AP units charge into a residential section of Kibera in Nairobi

AP units fire tear gas into a residential section of Kibera in Nairobi

Two lay dead after police fired live rounds into an unarmed crowd

Realtives of a girl killed during protests in kibera react to her death

A woman reacts to the deaths

A boy not involved in the protests was shot in the face inside his neighborhood by police

A teenage boy who was shot in the eye during protests in Kibera writhes in pain as he waits for an ambulance to arrive

UPDATED: Door to Door Raids and Police Brutality Leave Five Injured and one dead in Kibera

Military and police forces harassed residents of Kibera.

Another day of violence in Kibera left one dead and five wounded according to MSF. In the Nairobi slum of Kibera, where I spent the whole day, police used tear gas and live ammunition on protesters. I saw three young men with bullet wounds, two with non-fatal injuries to the thigh area, and one with a bullet wound to the neck. The latter was walking home from work when he was shot, and died from his wounds shortly after I left the hospital.The day started with residents of Kibera setting up burning barricades to block police and chanting political slogans, singing and dancing. Then the crowd decided to head to the edge of town to loot the supermarket at which point they were met with 5 large trucks full of police. A long stand off ensued as residents threw rocks and police sent tear gas and opened fire on the protesters. After a few hours, police went in en masse and performed door to door raids, pulling people out of their homes, beating them and breaking down doors. They fired live ammunition in the streets and terrorized men and women on their way home from work. By 6 p.m. all was quiet and three were on their way to hospital with gunshot wounds. A third day of protests is scheduled for tomorrow.

Youth push around an oil barrel in Kibera

A youth bangs on an oil barrel with graffiti on it in Kibera

A man paints a message to police on the ground in Kibera

A youth sends a stone hurling toward police in Kibera

Young men dance and sing political songs in honor of opposition leader Raila Odinga in Kibera

People crouch down to the ground to avoid tear gas in Kibera

A boy wipes his eyes after taking in a big gust of tear gas in Kibera

The owner of a closed chemist shop peers out her window in Kibera

A boy plays hurt with a rock to display his anger in Kibera

A man hurls a stone at police in Kibera

Police fire tear gas into the crowd of protesters in Kibera

Police charge into Kibera en masse

Girls cry after police tore through their neighborhood breaking in doors and beating people in Kibera

A woman cries with her children after police tore through their neighborhood breaking in doors and beating people in Kibera

A policeman kicks in the door of a local bar which has shut down business due to the violence in Kibera

Police perform door to door raids in Kibera

Police harass and beat residents of Kibera

Police harass a resident of Kibera

Police threw a man in a ditch full of sewage in Kibera

A man passes police performing door to door raids on his way home from work in Kibera

A man by the name of Geoffry (last name unavailable) was shot in the neck as he was walking home from work and later died of his wounds in Kibera

A man by the name of Geoffrey (last name unavailable) was shot in the neck as he was walking home from work and later died of his wounds in Kibera

First Day of ODM Scheduled Protests Brings More Violence

At around 3 p.m. two leading members of opposition leader Raila Odinga’s party entered downtown Nairobi. Their presence attracted a small crowd of people who began following them. Riot police immediately shot tear gas into the crowd to disperse people and drove through town ordering everyone to go home. Most shops closed and offices emptied of employees as riot police chased small gatherings about town and often arbitrarily sent tear gas canisters into the air. There was a report of one womn carrying a baby being hit on the head with a tear gas can and falling to the ground. But things remained fairly non-violent on the part of civilians, and downtown Nairobi was a virtual ghost town. Elsewhere, the situation was brought to a boiling point.I was in Nairobi’s most notorious slum, Mathare, early this evening where a mob nearly left one man beaten to death, and blocked passage through the neighborhood, throwing rocks and brandishing machetes. Police came in behind us just as we were arriving to disperse the crowds, but as we were leaving, the mob had reappeared at the top of the hill. Police used tear gas, beat men with sticks, and fired live ammunition, though to my knowledge no one was hit by bullets. Nairobi’s slums are stricken with extreme poverty and it is difficult to see how the violence that has erupted has anything to do with the stolen election. Rather, I would venture to guess that discontent has festered for so long that tempers have flared easily in the poorest parts of the capital as anger has spread throughout the nation over the rigged elections in December.

A large group of people who alleged a mob was trying to loot them, gathered to watch as police moved in to fend the others off

People ran in panic as police fired tear gas

Police fired tear gas into a side street where a mob who attacked one of my colleagues receded

Residents of Mathare peer out from a house, one brandishing a stone

Police hit a man who came out from the mob once things had calmed down

Then they arrested him

Then they threw him in a truck, beat him, and eventually let him go

When things calmed down, this woman and her child, as well as many others were able to pass and go back home

Elsewhere, in Kibera, there was tension and riot police went in, though by the time I arrived, the situation had stabalized. Two people were reported killed.

Here a man shows an empty bullet shell, proof that police had used live ammunition to disperse the crowds

ODM Wins House Speakers

Mini Pub, West NairobiLocal Nairobi residents celebrated last night when parliamentary election results announced Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party members won both House and Deputy Speaker positions. This is sure to appease anger a bit, but did not seem to deter any of those present from preparing to hit the streets today for the first day of rallies called by opposition leader Raila Odinga. “Kabaki Down!” Shouted one man. “Let’s get emotional!” cheered another as they jumped for joy and joined in singing political songs together.Kenya is on fire with politics. “The people voted for change,” said one woman, “and it was robbed of us. What do you think we’re going to do? Just sit here?”The atmosphere was calm throughout the day yesterday as people awaited the results from parliament, and into the night locals celebrated at home and in pubs when the news came in. But the streets of Nairobi are crawling with riot police today and tension is almost palpable in the air as both sides prepare for rallies at Uhuru Park which have been deemed illegal by Kibaki’s government.At this time it is difficult to say if the demonstrations will turn sour or not. It may depend more on how the police react than the protesters, as the mood has generally been lightened with yesterday’s success. I had a late dinner at a friend’s house last night. As I was leaving, the lady of the house, easily in her late fourties said to me: “I hope to see you fresh tomorrow, ready to run with me!” People are happy, but unwilling to stand down until they get what they want. This is democracy in action; people actively participating in the future of their country. Let’s just hope it remains non-violent.

Open Letter by Shailja Patel

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An Open Letter to SAMUEL KIVUITU, Chairman of Electoral Commission of Kenya from Shailja Patel.Dear Mr. Kivuitu,We’ve never met. It’s unlikely we ever will. But, like every other Kenyan, I will remember you for the rest of my life. The nausea I feel at the mention of your name may recede. The bitterness and grief will not.You had a mandate, Mr. Kivuitu. To deliver a free, fair and transparent election to the people of Kenya. You and your commission had 5 years to prepare. You had a tremendous pool of resources, skills, technical support, to draw on, including the experience and advice of your peers in the field – leaders and experts in governance, human rights, electoral process and constitutional law. You had the trust of 37 million Kenyans!We believed it was going to happen. On December 27th, a record 65% of registered Kenyan voters rose as early as 4am to vote. Stood in lines for up to 10 hours, in the sun, without food, drink, toilet facilities. As the results came in, we cheered when minister after powerful minister lost their parliamentary seats.When the voters of Rift Valley categorically rejected the three sons of Daniel Arap Moi, the despot who looted Kenya for 24 years. The country spoke through the ballot, en masse, against the mindblowing greed, corruption, human rights abuses, callous dismissal of Kenya’s poor, that have characterised the Kibaki administration.But Kibaki wasn’t going to go. When it became clear that you were announcing vote tallies that differed from those counted and confirmed in the constituencies, there was a sudden power blackout at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, where the returns were being announced. Hundreds of GSU (General Service Unit) paramilitaries suddenly marched in. Ejected all media except the government mouthpiece Kenya Broadcasting Corporation.Fifteen minutes later, we watched, dumbfounded, as you declared Kibaki the winner. 30 minutes later, we watched in sickened disbelief and outrage, as you handed the announcement to Kibaki on the lawns of State House. Where the Chief Justice, strangely enough, had already arrived. Was waiting, fully robed, to hurriedly swear him in.

You betrayed us. Perhaps we’ll never know when, or why, you made that decision. One rumor claims you were threatened with the execution of your entire family if you did not name Kibaki as presidential victor. When I heard it, I hoped it was true. Because at least then I could understand why you chose instead to plunge our country into civil war.

I don’t believe that rumor any more. Not since you appeared on TV, looking tormented, sounding confused, contradicting yourself. Saying, among other things, that you did not resign because you “did not want the country to call me a coward”, but you “cannot state with certainty that Kibaki won the election”. Following that with the baffling statement “there are those around him [Kibaki] who should never have been born.” The camera operator had a sense of irony – the camera shifted several times to the scroll on your wall that read: “Help Me, Jesus.”

As the Kenya Chapter of the International Commission of Jurists rescinds the Jurist of the Year award they bestowed on you, as the Law Society of Kenya strikes you from their Roll of Honour and disbars you, I wonder what goes through your mind these days.

Do you think of the 300,000 Kenyans displaced from their homes, their lives? Of the thousands still trapped in police stations, churches, any refuge they can find, across the country? Without food, water, toilets, blankets? Of fields ready for harvest, razed to the ground? Of granaries filled with rotting grain, because no one can get to them? Of the Nairobi slum residents of Kibera, Mathare, Huruma, Dandora, ringed by GSU and police, denied exit, or access to medical treatment and emergency relief, for the crime of being poor in Kenya?

I bet you haven’t made it to Jamhuri Park yet. But I’m sure you saw the news pictures of poor Americans, packed like battery chickens into their stadiums, when Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Imagine that here in Nairobi, Mr. Kivuitu. 75,000 Kenyans, crammed into a giant makeshift refugee camp. Our own Hurricane Kivuitu-Kibaki, driven by fire, rather than floods. By organized militia rather than crumbling levees. But the same root cause – the deep, colossal contempt of a tiny ruling class for the rest of humanity. Over 60% of our internal refugees are children. The human collateral damage of your decision!

And now, imagine grief, Mr. Kivuitu. Grief so fierce, so deep, it shreds the muscle fibres of your heart. Violation so terrible, it grinds down the very organs of your body, forces the remnants through your kidneys, for you to piss out in red water.

Multiply that feeling by every Kenyan who has watched a loved one slashed to death in the past week. Every parent whose child lies, killed by police bullets, in the mortuaries of Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret. Everyone who has run sobbing from a burning home or church, hearing the screams of those left behind. Every woman, girl, gang-raped.

Do you sleep well these days, Mr. Kivuitu? I don’t. I have nightmares. I wake with my heart pounding, slow tears trickling from the corners of my eyes, random phrases running through my head:

Remember how we felt in 2002? It’s all gone. (Muthoni Wanyeki, ED of Kenya Human Rights Commission, on the night of December 30th, 2007, after Kibaki was illegally sworn in as president).

There is a crime here that goes beyond recrimination. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolise. (John Steinbeck, American writer, on the betrayal of internally displaced Americans, in The Grapes of Wrath)

Haki iwe ngao na mlinzi.kila siku tuwe na shukrani (”Justice be our shield and defender.every day filled with thanksgiving” (Lines from Kenya’s national anthem)

I soothe myself back to patchy sleep with my mantra in these terrible days, as our country burns and disintegrates around us:

Courage. Courage comes. Courage comes from cultivating. Courage comes from cultivating the habit. Courage comes from cultivating the habit of refusing. Courage comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions. (Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner).

I wake with a sense of unbearable sadness. Please let it not be true..

Meanwhile, the man you named President cowers in the State House, surrounded by a cabal of hardline power brokers, and a bevy of sycophantic unseated Ministers and MPs, who jostle for position and succession. Who fuel the fires by any means they can, to keep themselves important, powerful, necessary.

The smoke continues to rise from the torched swathes of Rift Valley, the gutted city of Kisumu, the slums of Nairobi and Mombasa. The Red Cross warns of an imminent cholera epidemic in Nyanza and Western Kenya, deprived for days now of electricity and water. Containers pile up at the Port of Mombasa, as ships, unable to unload cargo, leave still loaded. Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Southern Sudan, the DRC, all dependent on Kenyan transit for fuel and vital supplies, grind to a halt.

A repressive regime rolls out its panoply of oppression against legitimate dissent. Who knew our police force had so many sleek, muscled, excellently-trained horses, to mow down protestors? Who guessed that in a city of perennial water shortages, we had high-powered water cannons to terrorize Kenyans off the streets?

I am among the most fortunate of the fortunate. Not only am I still whole, alive, healthy, mobile; not only do I have food, shelter, transport, the safety of those I love; I have the gift of work. I have the privilege to be in the company of the most brilliant, principled, brave, resilient Kenyans of my generation. To contribute whatever I can as we organize, strategize, mobilize, draw on everything we know and can do, to save our country.

I marvel at the sheer collective volume of trained intelligence, of skill, expertise, experience, in our meetings. At the ability to rise above personal tragedy – families still hostage in war zones, friends killed, homes overflowing with displaced relatives – to focus on the larger picture and envisage a solution. I listen to lawyers, economists, youth activists, humanitarians; experts on conflict, human rights, governance, disaster relief; to Kenyans across every sector and ethnicity, and I think:

Is this what we have trained all our lives for? To confront this epic catastrophe, caused by a group of old men who have already sucked everything they possibly can out of Kenya, yet will cling until they die to their absolute power?

You know these people too, Mr. Kivuitu. The principled, brave, resilient, brilliant Kenyans. The idealists who took seriously the words we sang as schoolchildren, about building the nation. Some of them worked closely with you, right through the election. Some called you friend. You don’t even have the excuse that Kibaki, or his henchmen, might offer – that of inhabiting a world so removed from ours that they cannot fathom the reality of ordinary Kenyans. You know of the decades of struggle, bloodshed, faith and suffering that went into creating this fragile beautiful thing we called the “democratic space in Kenya.” So you can imagine the ways in which we engage with the unimaginable. We coin new similes:

Lie low like a 16A (the electoral tally form returned by each constituency, many of which were altered or missing in the final count)

We joke about the Kivuitu effect – which turns internationalists, pan-Africanists, fervent advocates for the dissolution of borders, into nationalists who cry at the first verse of the national anthem .

Ee Mungu nguvu yetu Ilete baraka kwetu Haki iwe ngao na mlinzi Natukae na undugu Amani na uhuru Raha tupate na ustawi.

O God of all creation Bless this our land and nation Justice be our shield and defender May we dwell in unity Peace and liberty Plenty be found within our borders.

Rarely do we allow ourselves pauses, to absorb the enormity of our country shattered, in 7 days. We cry, I think, in private. At least I do. In public, we mourn through irony, persistent humor, and action. Through the exercise of patience, stamina, fortitude, generosity, that humble me to witness. Through the fierce relentless focus of our best energies towards challenges of stomach-churning magnitude.

We tell the stories that aren’t making it into the press: the retired general in Rift Valley sheltering 200 displaced families on his farm, the Muslim Medical Professionals offering free treatment to anyone injured in political protest. We challenge, over and over again, with increasing weariness, the international media coverage that presents this as “tribal warfare”, “ethnic conflict”, for an audience that visualises Africa through Hollywood: Hotel Rwanda, The Last King of Scotland, Blood Diamond.

I wish you’d thought of those people, when you made the choice to betray them. I wish you’d drawn on their courage, their integrity, their clarity, when your own failed you. I wish you’d had the imagination to enter into the lives, the dreams, of 37 million Kenyans.

But, as you’ve probably guessed by now, Mr. Kivuitu, this isn’t really a letter to you at all. This is an attempt to put words to what cannot be expressed in words. To mourn what is too immense to mourn. A clumsy groping for something beyond the word ‘heartbreak’. A futile attempt to communicate what can only be lived, moment by moment. This is a howl of anguish and rage. This is a love letter to a nation. This is a long low keening for my country.
Shailja Patel

KENYABLEEDS

January 18, 2008
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inter-tribal violence was to blame for this man’s wounds

A terrified young boy pleads to Police not to hurt him

People have been killed under circumstances that are not unjustified and the police must be held accountable

Ben Lawrence, Human Rights Watch

January 18, 2008
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A man collapses outside a small clinic after he was shot in the face, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008 during clashes between the police and opposition supporters in the Kibera slum in Nairobi.With days of protests failing to budge Kenya’s president, a weakened opposition said Friday it would turn to economic boycotts and strikes to keep up pressure over disputed elections.

(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

January 18, 2008
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Jan. 16: Kenyan riot police officers on horseback chase photographers in central Nairobi, Kenya.

January 18, 2008
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The body of a dead opposition protester lies covered on a street during a protest in the port city of Mombasa January 18, 2008. At least 13 people were killed in Kenya on Friday when police opened fire in a Nairobi slum and ethnic groups clashed during protests against the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.

REUTERS/Joseph Okanga (KENYA)

One of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leaders, Najib Balala (3rd R), gestures near the body of a dead opposition protester in the port city of Mombasa January 18, 2008.REUTERS/Joseph Okanga (KENYA)

January 18, 2008
Slain like dogs. the bodies of two teenagers lie in the mud and mirk after being brutally shot by Kenyan Police

January 18, 2008

Nurses assist a man who collapsed outside a small clinic after he was shot in the face, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008 during clashes between the police and opposition supporters in the Kibera slum in Nairobi.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

January 18, 2008

Playwright Omtatah Okoiti gestures after he chained himself to the gates of the Kenyan police headquarters in Nairobi January 17, 2008. Okoiti was protesting a police crackdown on demonstrations against President Mwai Kibaki’s disputed re-election at the December 27 polls, and was later arrested.(Stringer/Reuters)

January 18, 2008

A woman cries over the bodies of two teenagers killed during opposition protests in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, January 18, 2008.

January 18, 2008

An opposition supporter shields his face from the flames of a burning makeshift roadblock in the village of Marura, near Eldoret, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008.

January 18, 2008

Kenyan Opposition supporters carry a fellow supporter after he was shot, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008, during clashes between the police and opposition supporters in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya.

January 18, 2008
the grief of thepeople

People cry over the bodies of two teenagers killed during opposition protests in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, January 18, 2008.

January 18, 2008

A Kenyan policeman shoots into a crowd of residents of the Kibera slum.

January 18, 2008

Residents of the Kibera slum react to seeing the bodies of a girl and a man who were shot dead by police.

Children shout slogans during a demonstration in the western town of Kisumu January 16, 2008. Youths erected roadblocks, shopkeepers nailed up windows and Kenyan riot police guarded streets before nationwide opposition protests planned for Wednesday against President Mwai Kibaki’s re-election.REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA)

January 16, 2008

Supporters of the opposition carry a mock coffin for President Mwai Kibaki, during a protest in Kisumu, Kenya, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. Legislators chose an opposition member as parliament speaker in a close vote Tuesday, giving a victory to foes of Kenya’s president as they prepared for mass protest rallies that raised fears of new violence over last month’s disputed election.(AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

January 16, 2008

An opposition supporter shows a leaflet outside the Orange Democratic Movement headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, whose supporters believe he was robbed of the presidency through vote rigging in last month’s election, called the protests in 42 locations nationwide, despite a government ban.(AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale)

January 16, 2008

A Kenyan woman who police believed was an opposition demonstrator, left, sits on the ground after being kicked by a policeman, as police fire tear gas and live rounds into the air to break up a large opposition demonstration and chase the demonstrators away in Eldoret, Kenya, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. .(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

January 16, 2008
This man is among Protesters who were shot by Police in Kisumu. A doctor attends to his wounds REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA)

January 16, 2008

Protesters gather in Nairobi on Jan 16th

January 16, 2008

A father carries his childas riot Police drive past him(AFP/Walter Astrada)

January 16, 2008

A terrified Kenyan schoolgirl runs past a barricade set up by residents of the Kibera slum district in Nairobi..(AFP/Simon Maina)

January 16, 2008
TODAY INPARLIAMENT

Opposition MPs demanded an open ballot, fearing the secret vote could be rigged by pro-government deputies

Government gets rescounding defeat as speaker of the house is chosen from the Opposition. Emuhaya MP-elect Kenneth Marende, a career Lawyer voted inby the majority as the Parliament Speaker.

ANOTHERIDIOT!

The irrational, vile and corrupt mortal that is Muchuki, stunned Journalist by claiming “There is no crisis in Kenya.This has been an exaggeration by the media.” When I read about this, it just left me dumbfounded! Lately there seems to be an endless train of gibberish emanating from the mouths of nincompoops like Muchuki and “Baghdad” Mutua in the Kibaki Circle.

It is totally incomprehensible that with 500 Kenyans Killed, over half a million displaced and experts predicting $1 billion dollars in losses, that a man with half a brain can not term that situation as a crisis! Who is running Kenya? This is getting scary! The situation is comparable to having a psychotic, drunk, blindfool driving your car, with kids in it. Listen folks, we need to open our eyes and refuse to allow ourselves to be led by a group of thieving, unintelligent maggots like Michuki and Mutua. Maybe Michuki should go back to being a tailor, but that would be an insult to the thousands of fine tailoring professionals. We Kenyans deserve better, our kids deserve more and our independence was too costly for us to be short changed. Get this guys out of government, am tired of this bullshit!

January 15, 2008
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Note: Images posted on www.Ushahidi.com.
Disclaimer: The following images are gruesome and disturbing. The humanitarian crisis is real and dire. Complete set of photos taken in Kakamega by Mr. Arunga are available here. The images include shots of the police station, showing the displaced taking refuge there, burning shops, vandalized petrol station and burned car.

Onlookers and concerned citizens around the body of 24 yr old James Odhiambo, who was killed in the post election violence in Lurambi – Junction on the way to Shikoti, Kakamega, western province, Kenya. The gentleman in white (Brian) on the right worked with James at the petrol station as attendants and witnessed the shooting.

Close up of the bullet wound on the body of 24 yr old James Odhiambo. According to eye witnesses, he was walking to work when he met the GSU paramilitary. Mr. Odhiambo continued to walking towards towards the GSU as he thought he could talk to them and find out what is happening. According to eyewitnesses, he was shot without even though he was not violent or doing anything that would indicate he would be a threat to the GSU. The witnesses tried to contact the police so they could come and pick up the body, but the police said that they did not have fuel for the vehicle. As of the writing of this post, the late James Odhiambo was buried yesterday in Homa Bay, Nyanza province. Brian and other friends from the area traveled to Homa Bay to comfort the family. If you would like to help the family directly, please do not hesitate to contact Brian Oluoch at +254 724 912015. Mr. Odhiambo was the sole breadwinner for his familyAny contributions towards their well being is appreciated.Pictures were taken by Mr.Michael Arunga, who works for World Vision in Darfur, and was on holiday at the time. He witnessed the burning of a kikuyu owned property, as shown in this photo.

**The decision to post the pictures here and to tell this story is partly because the pictures were sent to editors of newspapers in Kenya, they did not run them or cover the story. As people try to get back to ‘normal’ life around the country, it is important to remember that there is no normal for a lot of people in Kenya.

January 14, 2008

Kenyan childrenof different ethnic tribesexcited to see their friends on the first day of school. Oblivious to the tribal violence that has rocked their communities.

January 14, 2008
(AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)

A child cries during the funeral of her mother and siblings in Kisumu, Kenya

January 14, 2008

William Ngayo sits beside the coffins of his wife and two sons before their burial in Kisumu, Kenya.

January 14, 2008

Two children who were killed during post-election violence are prepared for burial in Kisumu, Kenya, on January 12

January 14, 2008

A child clutches a photo of her family as she watches the burial of relatives in Kisumu.

January 14, 2008
KIBAKI REFUSES TO ACCEPT ANNANMEDIATION

News from the ground is that as of Monday the 14th of january, Kibaki has refused an offer of mediation by Koffi Annan, Nelosn Mandela and other African Statesmen. Annan was due in Nairobi on Tuesday.”If Kofi Annan is coming, he is not coming at our invitation,” Roads and Public Works Minister John Michuki,So the hardline approach by Kibaki continues as does the suffering of Hundreds of thousands of Kenyans.

January 14, 2008
Children scramble for food in Nairobi, while their “President”(Mwai Kibaki) enjoys executive service at his Presidential Palace. The UN says half a million Kenyans urgently need help.

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January 13, 2008

Hundreds of residents crammed into the office and its compound.

Photo: Evelyn Hockstein for The New York Times

January 13, 2008
Displaced people took shelter with their belongings in the office of a local chief in the Kiambiu slum.

Photo: Evelyn Hockstein for The New York Times

January 13, 2008
A man was helped by bystanders after he was hit on the head with a hoe and beaten by an angry crowd. News photographers brought him to the hospital after realizing the hospital in the slum was closed.

Photo: Evelyn Hockstein for The New York Times

January 13, 2008
A man lay dead Sunday in a village in the Rift Valley. Tens of thousands of Kikuyus have left the area since Dec. 27 elections.

January 13, 2008
A Kikuyu man at the hospital in Nakuru, Kenya, was slashed in the face and head, and one of his fingers was chopped off.

January 13, 2008

Displaced Kenyans await the distribution of aid at their temporary refuge at the Nairobi Show Grounds, January 13, 2008. REUTERS/MIKE HUTCHINGS

January 13, 2008

A displaced Kenyan mother comforts her child as they await the distribution of aid at their temporary refuge at the Nairobi Show Grounds, January 13, 2008. Kenya’s government should order police to stop using lethal force against protestors, a U.S.-based group said on Sunday as the nation braced for three days of opposition rallies over disputed December 27 polls. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings (KENYA)
REUTERS/MIKE HUTCHINGS

January 13, 2008
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January 13, 2008
BAGHDAD MUTUA, JUST SHUT THE HELLUP!

cartoon by GADOBaghdad Mutua or as he prefers to be addressed, Dr.Alfred Mutua, has become a symbol of disfunction, inaccuracy and his perfomance as the Official Government spokesman can only be descibed as ..impotent. Listen Alfred, stop embarrasing yourself and just be quiet. It takes a special kind of stupid to say these,”They [Kufuor and Kibaki] are age-mates and friends and Kufuor is coming to have a cup of tea with him,” Mutua said.wow!!! So the President of Ghana flew thousands of miles in a Presidential Jet at the urging of World Leaders to “have a cup of tea” with Kibaki? Now Kenyan Tea is indebatable one of the best in the world but its not that good to invoke an international response of the nature of Kufuor or other world leaders that have converged to Kenya. full story here http://www.eastandard.net/news/?id=1143980353&cid=4In addition, an interesting article about this idiot Mutua at http://eyesonkenya.org/blog/?p=31what a Tard!

January 13, 2008

Ten-year-old Joseph Mathenge’s hopes of returning to school next week have been dashed by the violence in Mathare.”I left all my books and uniforms as we fled our house at night.”We were not attacked but our neighbours’ houses were set on fire and we ran away in fear.”Now we can’t play, so I am teaching my new friends how to read.”

January 11, 2008

Relatives of a victim of the post-elections unrest mourn at the mortuary in Kisumu, Kenya

January 11, 2008

Jan. 8: Kenyans reach out to receive food aid handed out by the Kenyan Red Cross, Tuesday, Jan.8, 2008 in the Kibera slum in Nairobi

January 11, 2008

Jan. 8: An exhausted displaced Kenyan woman sleeps on the grass next to a small child at a camp for the displaced in the grounds of Langas police station on the outskirts of Eldoret, Kenya.

January 11, 2008
January 08, 2008 “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.” Psalm91:14

January 9, 2008

Displaced Kenyan women from the Mathare slum, which was a hot spot for civilian unrest after the elections,pray together in Nairobi on January 7.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)

January 8, 2008

A Kenyan woman grieves after finding her son at the morgue in Nairobi.(AFP/Simon Maina)

January 8, 2008

A family member carries the body of one-year and one-month-old boy, Brian Wanjiru ,Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 outside an air force base in the Nairobi slum of Mathare where his mother took shelter. Mary Wanjiru sat beside her baby’s corpse for hours, as hundreds of people camping out beside an air force base to flee Kenya’s election violence washed clothes, cooked maize, and stood in line for medicine.’Because we are sleeping outside, and it’s so cold, he’s dead,’ Wanjiru said, her face expressionless.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

January 8, 2008

Members of the Kenyan Red Cross and a family member cover the body of one-year and one-month-old boy, Brian Wanjiru, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 outside an air force base in the Nairobi slum of Mathare where his mother took shelter. Mary Wanjiru sat beside her baby’s corpse for hours, as hundreds of people camping out beside an air force base to flee Kenya’s election violence washed clothes, cooked maize, and stood in line for medicine.’Because we are sleeping outside, and it’s so cold, he’s dead,’ Wanjiru said, her face expressionless.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

January 8, 2008
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Mary Wanjiru walk behind Red Cross workers carrying the body of her one year and one month old boy, Brian , Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 as they arrive at the Nairobi city mortuary. Mary Wanjiru sat beside her baby’s corpse for hours, as hundreds of people camping out beside an air force base to flee Kenya’s election violence washed clothes, cooked maize, and stood in line for medicine.’Because we are sleeping outside, and it’s so cold, he’s dead,’ Wanjiru said, her face expressionless.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

January 8, 2008
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BREAKING NEWS!!!KIBAKI NAMES NEW CABINET, RAILA CALLS OFF PEACE TALKS! KALONZO MUSYOKA NAMED V.P.It took a one minute address to the Nation of Kenya for Mwai Kibaki to dash the hopes of many Kenyans, by naming a new Cabinet. To add insult to injury, Kibaki has named Kalonzo Musyoka his Vice President, therefore giving the false perception of two ethnic communities against a whole country.The peace process has been set back as Kibaki plays politics with Kenyan lives.

January 8, 2008
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Christophe Calais for The New York TimesMary escaped from a burning church last week in Kiambaa, but her daughter died in front of her. Up to 50 Kikuyus were killed.

January 8, 2008

A charred corpse lies next to a minivan torched during post-election ethnic violence in Cheptiret village January 4, 2008.

January 7, 2008

Kenyans attend the Lutheran church in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008.(AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

January 7, 2008

A woman is comforted after she collapsed in grief during Sunday mass inside a Lutheran church that was burnt during post-election violence in Nairobi’s Kibera slum January 6, 2008.REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA)

January 7, 2008

A police officer kicks a resident of the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday Jan. 5, 2008

January 6, 2008

A Kenya Red Cross volunteer, right, reacts as Kibera residents line up to receive food aid , Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008 in Nairobi

January 6, 2008

A Red Cross volunteer try to keep Kibera residents back as they line up to receive food aid, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008 in Nairobi

January 6, 2008

The body of a woman who mortuary workers said died by strangulation the day after the election was held lies in a mortuary so full of bodies they still lay piled across floors at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008. Thousands of terrified Kenyans are fleeing the west of this troubled East African nation on buses escorted by soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, the burnt out shells of vehicles and the corpses of others who died trying.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

January 6, 2008

the innocence of this baby affords her a smile in this difficult time

January 6, 2008

Kenyans displaced by post-election violence take refuge in a Catholic cathedral in Eldoret, about 190 miles northwest of Nairobi, January 5, 2008.

January 6, 2008

Kenyans displaced by post-election violence take refuge in a Catholic cathedral in Eldoret, about 190 miles northwest of Nairobi, January 5, 2008. Up to a quarter of a million people have been uprooted by ethnic clashes, aid agencies say.REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

January 6, 2008

A woman is robbed as she returns with goods in the Kibera slum after post-election riots in Nairobi, January 5, 2008.

January 6, 2008

A woman is robbed as she returns with goods in the Kibera slum after post-election riots in Nairobi, January 5, 2008. Kenya’s

January 6, 2008

A woman is robbed as she returns with goods in the Kibera slum after post-election riots in Nairobi, January 5, 2008. Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki said on Saturday he was ready to form a government of national unity to end post-election violence that has killed 300 people and forced 250,000 to flee their homes.REUTERS/Noor Khamis

January 6, 2008

A displaced boy, fleeing the wave of violence that has left at least 360 people dead and displaced 250,000 following the presidential elections, stands near the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Eldoret, western Kenya, on January 5

January 6, 2008

Kenyan police attack a man while clearing up an alley in the Kibera slum district of Nairobi. Kenya’s opposition has responded to the president’s call for a unity cabinet by asking him to resign, as a top US envoy attempted to defuse a crisis that has killed hundreds and displaced thousands. (AFP/Simon Maina

January 6, 2008
UGANDAN MINISTER OF ENERGY ASSURES UGANDANS THAT ARMY ESCORTS HAVE TRAVELLED TO KENYA TO SECUREESCORTS

fOR THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWING THIS UGANDAN ANGLE HERE IS AN UPDATE.http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve6371**UPDATE**JAN 7TH 2008MUSEVENI CONTRDICTS ENERGY MINISTER AND DENIES PRESCENCE OF UGANDAN TROOPS IN KENYARaila said Ugandan president Museveni has called him thrice denying there were Ugandan soldiers in Kenya. “Museveni was at pains to explain that his soldiers are not here. He asked me to clarify the issue to the Kenyan people.” Even as Museveni denied this, the rumour of Ugandan soldiers killing civilians in western Kenya remained strong.FULL STORY http://eastandard.net/news/?id=1143980012&cid=4

January 5, 2008

Kibera residents queue for food outside the DO’s office, yesterday

January 5, 2008

US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Dr.Jendayi Frazer, seen here in 2007, arrived in Kenya Friday for talks aimed at finding a way out of the country’s violent post-electoral

Assistant Professor for Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 1995 to 2001

She graduated from Stanford University with B.A. in Political Science with honors and African-American Studies with distinction and obtained her M.A. degrees in International Policy Studies and International Development Education, and a Ph.D. in Political Science. Jendayi is a specialist in African Affairs and International Security Affairs.

During her tenure at the National Security Council, she was instrumental in the decisions that led to establishing the $15 billion President’s Emergency Plan for HIV/AID Relief (PEPFAR) as well as the Millennium Challenge Account that has contributed to raising U.S. assistance to Africa to a historic high of $4.1 billion in 2006

January 4, 2008

A Kenyan soldier talks to displaced ethnic people leaving Kisumu under army protection, January 4, 2008

January 4, 2008
Children displaced by post election violence prepare food near Sacred Heart Cathedral in Eldoret, Western Kenya, January 3,

January 4, 2008

Opposition supporters brandish their bows at a roadblock on the route to Eldoret, 300 km (186 miles) northwest of Nairobi, January 3, 2008

January 4, 2008

Police officers patrol a street in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008.

January 4, 2008

People look at the body of a man stoned to death the previous day in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008.

January 4, 2008

An 11-year-old survivor stands amid the burnt out ruins of the Kenya Assemblies of God Pentacostal church, where at least 18 people were burnt alive on Tuesday during ethnic clashes after disputed elections, near Eldoret in western Kenya, January 3,

January 4, 2008

One of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leaders, Najib Balala (C), talks with a policeman as riot police disperse anti-government Muslim demonstrators after Friday prayers in the port of Mombasa, January 4, 2008.

January 4, 2008
A convoy of vehicles is escorted by members of the police, in the town of Burnt Forest some 35 kilometers from Eldoret, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008.

January 4, 2008

A man who was attacked with machetes recovers at the hospital in the town of Burnt Forest, some 35 kilometers from Eldoret, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008

January 4, 2008

A man who had one of his hands chopped of with a machete sit in a wheelchair at the hospital in the town of Burnt Forest, some 35 kilometers from Eldoret, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008.

January 4, 2008

Matthew Olson, a pilot from the Christian organization AIM Air, helps a child out of an airplane at Eldoret airport after he evacuated them from the town of Kakamega near the Ugandan border, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008.

January 4, 2008

Burned homesteads just outside the town of Burnt Forest, some 35 kilometers from Eldoret, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008

January 4, 2008

Thousands of people take shelter at a church in Eldoret, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008.

January 4, 2008

An aerial view of the slum of Kibera with the Nairobi skyline in the background, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008.

January 4, 2008

Residents looking to receive food run after a vehicle from the Kenyan Red Cross preparing to distribute food aid in the Kibera slum area of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, Jan. 4, 2008

January 4, 2008

People can be seen next to a makeshift roadblock just outside Eldoret, Kenya, Friday, Jan. 4, 2008

January 4, 2008

Journalists run for cover as riot police fire teargas and grenades to disperse opposition supporters in Nairobi, January 4, 2008.

January 4, 2008
Dear Family,

this has been an incredibly difficult day. The horror of what is happening to my home, the land that made me the man that I am today is under assault. Not from a foreign enemy but from one who looks, talks and acts like me. I am incensed, sorrowful, and simply angry. Many of my countrymen and friends of Kenya feel the same way. I am a father, who could imagine the pain of another father loosing his child.I saw the pictures of the little girls piled up in a mortuary and I could not help but think of my baby girl lying there, like an animal. Piled up on other dead bodies.Today a father, a mother has lost theirchild.You and I are blessed that we still have ourchildren, dads, moms, wives and husbands with us. Tonight, because of greed, because of lack of integrity, many in Kenya cannot say the same things. We shall overcome. We shall wake up to see a new Kenya, but not before much blood has been needlessly spilled. The media may have been silenced in Kenya, but voices in the wilderness have picked up the call to serve. Tell your friends, tell your family, may justice reign and may God’s eternal mercies be upon our land.for information on how to donate to the Red Cross in Kenya, here is the link.http://www.kenyaredcross.org/donate.php?subcat=91Goodnight Ya’ll.

January 4, 2008
THIS ISUNFORGIVABLE!!!!

Children’s bodies fill shelves during a visit by opposition leader Raina Odinga to a Nairobi morgue.

January 4, 2008
THE INNOCENCE ISGONE

January 4, 2008
WE FEELCHEATED

January 3, 2008
A BRAVEMAN

German Ambassador to Kenya Walter Lindner stands beside riot police as he watches demonstrators in Kibera slums during a protest against President Mwai Kibaki’s disputed re-election in Nairobi January 3, 2008

January 3, 2008
BODIES PILE UP INNAIROBI!

Some of the bodies in the Nairobi Mortuary lie piled up Thursday Jan. 3, 2007

January 3, 2008
CHAOS INNAIROBI

January 3, 2008

A protester carries a rock to block a road during battles between police and demonstrators disputing the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki in Nairobi January 3

January 3, 2008

L to R) Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leaders Charity Ngilu, Najib Balala, William Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi walk towards the venue of a rally disputing the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki in Nairobi January 3, 2008

January 3, 2008

Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga (R) visits a man wounded after clashes between police and demonstrators during the dispute over the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki in Nairobi January 3, 2008.

January 3, 2008

Riot police block a road during clashes between police and demonstrators disputing the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki in Nairobi

January 3, 2008

A man runs with an empty bucket to fetch water as houses and shops burn in Nairobi, January 3, 2008

January 3, 2008

A woman reacts after witnessing a protestor getting electrocuted as police clash with demonstrators

January 3, 2008
REFUGEES IN THEIR OWNCOUNTRY

January 3, 2008

A child sits in a bus which leaves under police protection from Kisumu, January 3, 2008.

January 3, 2008
CHURCH ONFIRE

January 3, 2008
SOULJABOY

January 3, 2008
SAVE OUR BELOVEDCOUNTRY!

January 3, 2008

Police use water cannons to disperse protesters. Some of the riot control vehicles were purchased from South Africa by the former Moi Regime

January 3, 2008

kenya Police Fire live rounds over the heads of protesters

January 3, 2008

Raila Had called for a million man march

January 3, 2008

Angry, fealing cheated, these demonsrators took to the streets

January 3, 2008

Running from Police

January 3, 2008
UHURU PARK RALLYCANCELLED

NAIROBI, Kenya A top official with Kenya’s main opposition party said Thursday’s rally had been canceled and called on supporters to go home, while riot police fired tear gas and water cannons to beat back crowds of protestersTruckloads of riot police in red berets armed with rifles and batons ringed the empty Uhuru Park in the city center where protesters were expected to converge.

On one main road, police fired tear gas and water cannons to push back a crowd of several hundred people from the Kibera slum holding branches and white flags symbolizing peace. “Without Raila there will be no peace,” said one of the protesters, 22-year-old Edward Muli.

full story available here http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/03/kenya.violence/index.html

January 3, 2008
INTRODUCING MUSEVENI-THEMEDIATOR

The Monitor is reportig that Museveni, Uganda’s President has offered his services as a mediator, after congratulating Kibaki on his re-election. wow, humor makes its bed in strange places.

First of all, how do you mediate when you have already picked a side. Secondly, shouldn’t Museveni be concerned about peace in his own back yard since his government is still fighting with rebels in North Uganda?

the full story is here http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Museveni_seeks_to_resolve_Kenya_crisis.shtml

January 3, 2008
Obama Comments on the Violence inKenya

“Despite irregularities in the vote tabulation, now is not the time to throw that strong democracy away,” Obama said, one day before a contest in Iowa launches the state-by-state nominating contests in the 2008 White House race.”Now is a time for President Kibaki, opposition leader Odinga, and all of Kenya’s leaders to call for calm, to come together, and to start a political process to address peacefully the controversies that divide them,” Obama said.

January 3, 2008
BODIES WITH POLICE GUNSHOT WOUNDS PILED UP IN KISUMU

January 2, 2008
DEAD BODIES DUMPED OVERNIGHT BY POLICE AT THE KISUMU MORTUARY MOST WITH GUNSHOTWOUNDS

By Noel Mwakugu
BBC News, Kisumu

Police were deployed to deal with protests at the weekend

Outside the mortuary in the Nyanza Provincial Hospital, to the west of the city of Kisumu, a small angry crowd had gathered on Monday morning.

They had come after hearing that dozens of bodies had been taken there by police overnight and in the early morning.

Inside the main room in the mortuary, I counted 43 bodies – mostly young men, two women and three children.

They had been brought in after a night of violence, blamed on the disputed presidential election.

Mortuary attendants were quietly moving among the bodies, which had been laid on the floor in a single row.

None of them had been covered – some of the men were topless, others were naked.

Bullet wounds

One man said that police had fired indiscriminately, even after protesters had started running away

All of the bodies had sustained at least one gunshot wound, in the legs, chest, stomach and back. One man had been hit by a bullet in the head.

A woman had been laid next to a child, presumably her daughter.

Outside, I spoke to one man who had witnessed their deaths. He said that police had fired indiscriminately, even after protesters had started running away. The woman and her daughter were both hit by the bullets.

Police chief Grace Kahindi said she had no knowledge of any deaths.

Almost deserted

There are fears that news of all of the shootings might spark more anger in the city and its suburbs.

The streets of Kisumu – Kenya’s third largest city and a stronghold of opposition leader Raila Odinga – are almost deserted. Police in full riot gear are patrolling in their vehicles.

Shops and business remain closed and the water supply to the city has been cut. Many people have moved out to the suburbs.

Following last night’s sporadic shooting, barricades built from boulders, trees and tyres have been built across the roads leading to the suburbs.

Small groups of young men are keeping watch for the riot police.

The mood is sombre, mixed with anger.

One man told me that peopled wanted to know why the government was killing them for demanding their rights.

January 2, 2008
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Jan. 2: Kenyan riot police help a man who was attacked by machetes during riots in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

January 2, 2008

Jan. 2: A policeman escorts a man and his children during riots in the Mathare slum in Nairobi.

January 2, 2008

A riot Police Officer escorts a woman fleeing the violence

January 2, 2008

A father fleeing the violence with his young children

January 2, 2008

Jan. 2: Kenyan riot police help a man that was attacked by machetes during riots in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

January 2, 2008
Ugandan Militia in Nyanza Province**officiallydenied**

Udanda People’s Defence ForceLast night I recieved news that there were reports of Ugandan militia in or around Nyanza Province and Western Province. I waited utill I got confirmation from the ground.After several late night phone calls, I did confirm(fromlocal citizens)that UgandanForces wereindeed within Kenyan borders. Just within the last hour Ugandan Army Spokesman, Major Felix Kulayigye, confirmed the deployment of the troops on Tuesday, saying”it is to forestall possible spill over of violence in Kenya”.He told The Standard on telephone: “The deployment is along our borderline, not to give any kind of military backing to President Kibaki. We are not mercenaries for anyone.”"So Uganda’s official position is that they have just beefed up security on the Border. However civilian boots on the ground claim that there are Ugandan militia operating within Kenya. Their Mission is unknown. I just wrote an email to Alfred Mutua, the government spokesman,asking him of his position on a foreign military operating in Kenya. Alfred am still waiting for your reply.In the meantime, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been quoted as saying that “all this lies on Raila’s shoulder”. Mr.Museveni has never been particularly fond of Raila and there were discussions before the elections about the implications of a Raila win.So if we do have Ugandan militia in Nyanza province, many of you might ask why? Well, here is a simple answer. Uganda is a landlocked country that relies heavily on the political stability of Kenya for imports and exports through the Mombasa Port on the Indian Ocean and is dependent on the the safe passage of goods through Kenya.The political instability has had devastating effects on Uganda’s economy. Uganda, fuel prices have risen from USh2,400 (Sh100) to USh5,000 (Sh225). Most oil importing companies have reported that they have not replenished their stocks after their reservoirs dried up. So there is motive as to why Uganda would get involved.stats on UPDF

formerly known as National Resistance Army

total strength:40-45,000, consists of land forces and an Air Wing

1,800 paramilitary personnel also, which include the Marines – Uganda’s naval force – with 400 personnel, and eight riverine patrol craft, all of less than 100 tonnes

600-strong Border Defence Unit equipped only with small arms.

January 2, 2008

Jan. 1: Kenyan police guard the entrance at a Provincial administration office where they took shelter after they fled violence in the slum of Kiambiu in Nairobi.

January 2, 2008

Jan. 1: Displaced people gather underneath a Kenyan flag at a Provincial administration office where they took shelter after they fled violence, in the slum of Kiambiu in Nairobi.

January 2, 2008

Jan. 1: A man admitted with serious burns lies covered in ointment at the Coast General Hospital, in Mombasa, Kenya.

January 2, 2008

Jan. 1: A man admitted with serious burns lies covered in ointment at the Coast General Hospital, in Mombasa, Kenya.

January 2, 2008

A woman weeps in front of a Kenya Assemblies of God Church in Eldoret, some 185 miles from Nairobi, Kenya. A mob torched the church, which had been sheltering hundreds of people fleeing clashes sparked by Kenya’s disputed election, burning dozens alive, including children, during some of the worst violence ever to hit the once-stable nation. January 2, 2008
KIBAKI’SDILEMMA

It can truly be said that Kibaki and his clique of powerful, rich friends never anticipated the events that would unfold in the country as a result of their cumbersome 3rd grade rigging and subsequent swearing in at State House as if they were swearing in a house Prefect at Karagoyo Secondary School. No foreign dignitaries, in the cover of darkness, no independent news media and a Chief Justice ready to initiate a ceremony without the results.It has become clear to the world that this poorly orchestrated exercise was inevitable, a desperate act by a desperate manjostling to cling to a Presidency taken away by the people.His ears deaf to the xcries of change and his eyes blind to the democratic revolt, Kibaki inadvertently commited political suicide, and by doing so put his own tribe the Kikuyu at the mercies and wrath of an angry nation.Kibaki will not survive this.The Kenyan Military with its brave commanders have long resisted becoming involved in Politics including intervention in tribal politics. And even though the President holds the Government of Kenya portfolio as the Commander in Chief, his sustainment in that Position is at the mercies of the real Commanders on the ground. Thus his resistance to call for A State of Emergency, among other socioeconomic reasons. Certainly the army itself with its 2 armored brigades, 4 infantry brigades, 1 engineer brigade, 1 armoured reconnaissance battalion, 2 artillery battalions, 3 engineer battalions, 1 independent air cavalry battalion, 5 infantry battalions, 1 parachute battalion, air wing with 35 armoured helicopters is well capable of restoring order. However this would be an admition by Kibaki that he has lost control and risk the Military gaining control.so his options are, step down and certainly face the humiliating admition that he rigged the elections, two, convene Parliament where he would almost certainly be facing a vote of No Confidence and loose, therefore leading to a fresh election. three, Negotiate with the man he loathes, Raila Odinga. This will require a miracle as Raila has refused to negotiate with Kibaki unless he steps down.In the meantime, Kenyans die as long standing ethnical rivalries preceeding generations, come to a violent boil.

January 2, 2008

News Update

The following are the titbits of info gathered so far:Heavy security presence in Nairobi Estates

Reports of Forceful curcumcision of Luos and possible homeopathy

January 2, 2008
An armed mob of thousands was marching towards BurntForest

There are hundreds if not thousands of kikuyus taking refuge in Burnt Forest. Who are these armed thugs. is it the Karamajong? Is it one of the other tribes? This is news I have just recieved in the last few minutes!! NOT OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED

January 2, 2008
AERIAL VIEW OFANARCHY

January 2, 2008

January 2, 2008
A WOMAN WEEPS FOR THE VICTIMS BURNT ALIVE IN A CHURCH

January 2, 2008
ANARCHY INELDORET

Word from the ground is that Eldoret has fallen into Anarchy.Homes being raided. Churches being burnt. Shops being looted. Murder and rape in broad daylight. Ethnic groups after each other.

The burnt church above is the church in which women and children were burnt alive ealrlier.

http://www.mentalacrobatics.com/think/

January 1, 2008
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BREAKING NEWS! 50 INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN BURNT ALIVE WHILE SEEKING SHELTER INCHURCH

Dozens burnt alive in church attackStory by NATION Reporter
Publication Date: 1/1/2008

Dozens are feared dead after rowdy protesters attacked a church and set it ablaze in Eldoret, as violence continues unabated following the disputed presidential election.Police

Violent scenes from Eldoret earlier today.Photo JARED NYATAYA

have confirmed the number of the dead to be between 35 and 40 women and children.

The congregation, mostly of women and children, had sought refuge at the Kenya Assemblies of God church, before their aggressors set it on fire. The women and children were fleeing from their homes which had been burnt in earlier attacks.

Red Cross officials say they are overwhelmed by the number of casualties from the violence in Eldoret.

Meanwhile, over tens of thousands of armed people are heading towards Burnt Forest, a few Kilometres from Eldoret. Burnt Forest has a history of violent tribal clashes.

January 1, 2008
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WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FORTHIS?

Who will be held responsible for the Police Brutal

City and massacre of civilians?

January 1, 2008
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERRESPONDS

FROM BBC AFRICAGordon Brown has contacted Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga to express his concern about violence in the country.The prime minister urged both to work for “unity and reconciliation” after at least 100 people died in clashes over a disputed presidential election. The Foreign Office has advised against all but essential travel to parts of Kenya, including Nairobi city centre. About 7,000 Britons are currently in Kenya, most of them on holiday. Mr Kibaki was officially re-elected president in the election, but Mr Odinga says he was robbed of victory by voting fraud. A statement from Downing Street said the prime minister had spoken to both men by telephone on Monday. “With both he expressed the UK’s concerns about the conduct of the Kenyan elections, but strongly urged both to work for unity and reconciliation.

“All sides should exercise and work for a solution that reflects the will of the Kenyan people.”

‘Very terrifying’

Meanwhile, two British government ministers said they were “appalled” by the violence.

In a joint statement, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said: “We call on those involved, including government security forces and political party supporters, to behave responsibly, to act within the law, and to address their grievances peacefully.”

They added that they had serious concerns over the elections and vote counting, and urged Kenya’s political leaders to “enter a process of dialogue”.

January 1, 2008
This is the Current State of Democracy inKenya

Kenya, the East African Country considered the most stable in an otherwise volatile region has fallen into chaos after accusations of election rigging by incumbent President Mwai Kibaki. This has led to ethnic violence, Police brutality, media black out and a mood of mourning nation wide.the pictures in this blog tell the story.

December 31, 2007

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6 Responses to “News: Serious kibaki Attrocities Graphic Pictures (Scroll down)”

Charles Nyangwara says:

January 21, 2008 at 10:41 pm

Mt. Kenya atrocities against innocent people!

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Majala Mahangu says:

January 22, 2008 at 6:49 am

What did Kenyans do to deserve this!

Our hearts and prayers go out to all innocent Kenyans who are victims of Politicians’ struggle for power

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George Kerayi says:

January 22, 2008 at 10:40 am

Some people have doubt on the claim that the December 27 election was rigged in favour of Kibaki and PNU. But one Samuel Kivuitu had a strange direction in his doubt: for one his mind is not clear if Kibaki won, even though he is the one mandated to do declare him the winner as he had earlier done. He instead attributes the Kibaki and PNU win to those around him [Kibaki] who should never have been born. If ECK has doubt in Kibaki win, you should too, even if you are his solid supporter. It is these truths that will bring justice and justice, lasting peace; not peace as inflicted through the killing of Railas supporters by both Kenyan and Ugandan soldiers.

My additional point is this: Sampling is relied on world wide as a scientific and accurate way of predicting an outcome. All researchers rely on samples and not population. Based on the same the argument, we can predict the population of Kenya in 2007. The last Kenyan census was 1999 but we can accurately predict the present population of Kenya as 35 million. The last opinion poll, a week to the election showed Raila having a 4% lead over Kibaki. A week later, Kibaki emerged with a 4% lead, which translates to an appreciation by an 8% gap from the polls a week earlier. Sociologists can only justify such a sudden change of trend under very extreme factors or occurrences such as could have been witnessed in Langata constituency if Amolo, Raila, Odinga and related names were permanently barred from voting in Langata as had been earlier imagined from the quarters around Kibaki who should never have been born.

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brian from United States says:

January 24, 2008 at 12:27 am

MILITARY TAKES CONTROL.RE-RUN OF ELECTION.THEN LIVE GOES ON AS NORMAL.
BUT MICHUKI,KARUA,MUTUA AND OTHER USELESS CRONIES WHO WILL NOT HELP ME AS A YOUTH .HISTORY WILL JUDGE THEM

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soothe joint pain says:

January 22, 2009 at 1:14 pm

soothe joint pain…

Although I understand the gist of what you are trying to say, there are still a few points that I need further clarification on….

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Jack says:

January 24, 2009 at 9:50 pm

soothe joint pain…

I cannot agree on everything you say in this article, but perhaps I missed some of the points you were trying to make….

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