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| Latest Kenya Ethnic Clashes Kill 69 |
| 2008-01-28 |
| Gangs armed with machetes and bows and arrows burned and hacked to death members of a rival tribe in western Kenya Sunday, as the number of dead from the latest explosion of violence over disputed presidential elections rose to 69. Houses were blazing in the tourist gateway town of Naivasha, torched by members of President Mwai Kibaki's tribe exacting revenge on their Luo rivals. Police, apparently overwhelmed, did not intervene. Some 55 bodies were counted Sunday at the morgue in Nakuru, the provincial capital where ethnic clashes erupted Thursday night and continued until Saturday. Bodies continued arriving Sunday, said a morgue attendant who spoke on condition of anonmyity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The latest deaths raise the toll to nearly 800 killed in ethnic violence and clashes with police since Kibaki was declared winner of Dec. 27 balloting that international and local observers say had a rigged tally. Some 255,000 people have been forced from their homes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 MSM, let's see now, how to spin this so Bush is to blame, Fredrick, hold the story for "Followup" as soon as we invent some then print it. Disgusted. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-01-28 22:04 |