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Post by JAHAATWACH on Jan 21, 2008 14:14:36 GMT 3
Signs in Kenya That Killings Were Planned By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN January 21, 2008 KERINGET, Kenya At first the violence seemed as spontaneous as it was shocking, with machete-wielding mobs hacking people to death and burning women and children alive in a country that was celebrated as one of Africa’s most stable. But a closer look at what has unfolded in the past three weeks, since a deeply flawed election plunged Kenya into chaos, shows that some of the bloodletting that has left more than 650 people dead may have been premeditated and organized. Leaflets calling for ethnic killings mysteriously appeared before the voting. Politicians with both the government and opposition parties gave speeches that stoked long-standing hatred among ethnic groups. And local tribal chiefs held meetings to plot attacks on rivals, according to some of them and their followers. As soon as the election results were announced, handing a suspiciously thin margin of victory to Kenya’s president, Mwai Kibaki — whose policies of favoring his own ethnic group have marginalized about half the country — all the elements lined up for the violence to explode. www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/world/africa/21kenya.html?ei=5087&em=&en=c3efd57955c55ff2&ex=1200978000&pagewanted=print
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Jan 21, 2008 14:48:52 GMT 3
If[ and God forbid) Kenya goes the Rwanda way, an International Tribunal will inevitably be constituted and the perpetrators will be held to account.
The Rwanda experience is a lesson to the Kabugas of this world.I believe not even my likes in the blogging world who may be tempted to take advantage of the online anonymity to play a part in gross human right violation will be spared by the long arm of justice.
Kenya it is time for all of us to examine ourselves and our role either by inaction or outright complicity in the wanton and senseless killings.
The world as Charles Taylor, Melosovic and Rwanda war crime convicts can testify is too small for those with disregard to human life.
I stand to be corrected but I personally hold President Mwai KIbaki responsible for the deaths ands destruction in Kenya.Why?
Because it is him and not his opposition protagonist who is drawing a salary for the job of a President. There was a reason why KBC beamed live transmission to Kenyan homes during Kibaki's hastily arranged swearing-in ceremony
In the oathing ceremony at State House Nairobi,Kibaki swore to protect Kenyan lives and property something that even a child who watched him that evening knows he hasnt.And he seems to have no apology for it.
I also blame Kibaki because the heavily funded Kenyan intelligence community(from Military Intelligence to CID and NSIS to Kenyan's Interpol) is answerable to him and him alone.
Kibaki is the Commander-In-Chief of the policeman captured killing an unarmed innocent civilian in Kisumu and the forces whose operations in Nairobi,Coast,Western and Nyanza have left hundreds dead.
Where were Kibaki's grassroot agents(Assistant Chiefs, Chiefs,OCS,APs and Intelligence Officer)when thugs burn Kenyan citizens in church or dismember children in homes?
Can Kibaki account for the hate leaflets being distributed in parts of the county,for the cache of weapons consficated in a government vehicle in Naivasha, for mass purchased of pangas at Nairobi's Nakumatt before elections?
Martha Karua is on record in BBC's Hardtalk saying the government foreknew the ongoing killings and if indeed she was right why wasn't it averted and why are the mastermind still scotfree?
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Post by kamalet on Jan 21, 2008 15:01:47 GMT 3
Do you actually have to twist anything that has ODM in bad light?
You post an article that confirms what we have said here that the genocide was not spontaneous but premeditated, and now blame Kibaki for this? Do you know that worse was planned had Raila actually won?
God loves Kenya, and Raila is not his son as he claimed in church on Saturday.
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Post by JAHAATWACH on Jan 21, 2008 15:46:10 GMT 3
KAMALE, this is no laughing matter and I beg you,PLEASE lets keep political rhetorics out of it.
There is one reason and one reason alone why Kibaki chose to invade Kenya's living rooms via KBC live broadcast on his controversial swearing in:To tell Kenyans who is-in-charge of the country.
Raila, Kalonzo and Kibaki craved for and literally begged Kenyans for the 2008-2012 job. Of course Kenyans made their choice but while we may not all agree who ought not to be the president, we all know who is now at State House.
Before he collect his salary in eleven days time, Kibaki must look Kenyans in the face and explain why he is unable to prevent leave alone halt the senseless killings.No excuses!
Nations like Libya,Germany and even recently here in Kenya, the British, have not only owned up but also paid/compensated for historical atrocities which they had the powers to prevent.
I know for sure that families of victims of the ongoing killings will one day seek and be granted not only justice but compensation.
As the man under whose watch this atrocities are being committed, Kibaki's spiritual and legal advisers ought to have by now advised him to make a formal public apology first to Kenyans who would be alive today had he done his job and secondly to their families.Most importantly the families who have lost their loved ones and bread winners want to see arrests, prosecutions as a start of national healing.
YES the buck stops with Kibaki.
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