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| Machete-wielding youths hunt Kikuyus in Kenya | |
| 2008-01-30 | |
| Thousands of machete-wielding youths set buses and homes ablaze and blocked roads with burning tires Monday as they hunted down members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe. One driver was burned alive in his minibus because he was Kikuyu. The death toll from Kenya's disputed presidential election soared over 800. "The road is covered in blood. It's chaos," said Baraka Karama, a journalist for independent Kenya Television in Kisumu. A month of ethnic bloodletting triggered by rigged presidential elections gathered frightening momentum in Kenya, spreading from town to town in the western Rift Valley, scene of the worst clashes. There was no sign of relief from international mediators trying to persuade politicians to resolve the crisis that has erupted over Kibaki's re-election in Dec. 27 balloting that international and local observers say was marred by a rigged vote tally. Columns of smoke rose from burning homes in Kisumu. "We wish to find one, a Kikuyu .... We will butcher them like a cow," said David Babgy, 24, a casual worker among 50 young men stopping buses at a roadblock of burned cars and uprooted lamp posts. The only deaths reported there Monday, apart from the burned bus driver, were people shot by police whom human rights groups accuse of using excessive force.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 STATEGYPAGE > UGANDA: KENYA'S CRISIS WASHES OVER THE BORDER. And likely NOT just only Uganda either. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-30 22:02 |
| #12 Do you really have to ask? You left out Islam, which should be at the top of the list. There are plenty of muslims in Kenya. |
| Posted by: Nuclear Weapons Commander 2008-01-30 21:24 |
| #11 They generally purged their societies of the thieves, mentally retarded and other undesirables that, of course, is nonsense. The slaves were the defeated and captured tribes: men, women, and children. To say that it was a societal purging is utter bullshit. Check your credibility |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-01-30 21:01 |
| #10 Ummm, the smart ones came to America? Not quite. The majority of the African slaves packed off to the "New World" were the misfits and dregs that could be caught by the Muslim and African slavers. They generally purged their societies of the thieves, mentally retarded and other undesirables. There is a great documentary done by an African anthropologist and he goes into the unpleasant facts about slavery in that era. Needless to say, the bleeding heart caring classes don't like to hear what he has to say. But they can't shut him up because he's Black and African. The documentary can be found at either PBS or TDC, can't remember which right now. |
| Posted by: Grease Dark Lord of the Algonquins9226 2008-01-30 19:55 |
| #9 said Baraka Karama, a journalist for independent Kenya Television in Kisumu hey! Don't we have a presidential....? Er, never mind |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-01-30 17:37 |
| #8 You're thinking of Europe. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-01-30 16:52 |
| #7 Ummm, the smart ones came to America? Only defectives left behind? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-01-30 16:41 |
| #6 What the fuck is wrong with African people? Do you really have to ask?
I'm sure others could come up with more. |
| Posted by: Grease Dark Lord of the Algonquins9226 2008-01-30 15:21 |
| #5 So... the Kikuyus are Zionists, right? /American undergraduates |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-01-30 09:48 |
| #4 What the fuck is wrong with African people? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-01-30 07:54 |
| #3 No worries. No reference in the article to ........ cannibalism, ritual zoophilia with goats, sexual orgies, ritual places decorated with intestines and goat eyes, and that oaths included promises to kill, dismember and burn |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-01-30 01:14 |
| #2 Wonderful people. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-01-30 01:14 |
| #1 Voting by Machete? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-01-30 00:50 |