Kampala, Uganda - Ugandan authorities admitted on Sunday they were 'forced to separate Kenyan refugees according to tribe' as a result of growing ethnic tensions and two failed poisoning attempts. In South Africa, that was the system called 'apartheid; - i.e. the segregation of ethnic-tribes.
| The implication being that it's bad, regardless of the reason. That's called logic. To my primitive and uneducated mind, keeping two groups of people who want to murder each other apart until the passions cool or Doomsday arrives is a good thing. But obviously I'm missing something. |
More than 6,000 Kenyan tribesmen had fled to Uganda to escape the past two weeks of riots and ethnic clashes that may have killed at least 680 people -- but probably many more -- in their homeland since President Mwai Kibaki's much-faulted re-election.
Rivalries between some of the Kenyan refugees in Uganda have simmered since their arrival, and the arrest of two men caught trying to poison food for other displaced Kenyans pushed hostilities higher. "We arrested two men thought to be Kalenjin militias mixing poison in refugees' food at a primary school that is acting as the refugees' reception centre," said Bimpabaza Hashaka, the top government official in Uganda's eastern Tororo District.
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