http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/01/23/kenya17859.htm
I knew, the moment Kofi Annan’s name was mentioned, the instigators of the violence in Kenya would be rewarded:
Kenya: Opposition Officials Helped Plan Rift Valley Violence
Police Should Protect Displaced Persons Camps
(Eldoret, January 24, 2008) – Human Rights Watch investigations indicate that, after Kenya’s disputed elections, opposition party officials and local elders planned and organized ethnic-based violence in the Rift Valley, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks, targeting mostly Kikuyu and Kisii people in and around the town of Eldoret, could continue unless the government and opposition act to stop the violence, Human Rights Watch said.
Human Rights Watch called on the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leadership to take immediate steps to stop its supporters from committing further attacks. At the same time, Human Rights Watch said the Kenyan police should urgently deploy extra officers to the region to protect displaced people and resident Kikuyu communities.
“Opposition leaders are right to challenge Kenya’s rigged presidential poll, but they can’t use it as an excuse for targeting ethnic groups,” said Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “We have evidence that ODM politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violence, and the authorities should investigate and make sure it stops now.”
Research by Human Rights Watch in and around the town of Eldoret, which has borne the brunt of the Rift Valley violence, indicates that attacks by several ethnic communities against others, especially local Kikuyu populations, were planned soon after the elections. In some cases, local elders and opposition politicians appear to have incited and organized the violence. Since December 27, 2007, clashes between members of the Kalenjin and Luya communities and their Kikuyu and Kisii neighbors in the Rift Valley have left more than 400 people dead and have displaced thousands more.
Human Rights Watch interviewed members of several pro-ODM Kalenjin communities who described the ways in which local leaders and ODM party agents actively fomented violence against Kikuyu communities. A Kalenjin preacher in a village in Eldoret North constituency told Human Rights Watch that on the morning of December 29, 2007, a local ODM party mobilizer “called a meeting and said that war had broken in Eldoret town, so the elders organized the youth into groups of not less than 15, and they went to loot [Kikuyu] homes and burn them down.”
The following day, the village held another meeting and the youth marched to the nearby town of Turbo. They were turned away by police. But they returned early the next morning, catching the police off guard, “and burnt almost half of the Kikuyu shops in town, including the petrol station,” according to the preacher. Human Rights Watch visited Turbo and found that most Kikuyu-owned buildings had been laid to ruin by the attackers. Displaced Kikuyu seeking shelter at the police station in Turbo confirmed to Human Rights Watch that their homes and businesses were destroyed by groups of Kalenjin youth.
Human Rights Watch spoke to numerous members of Kalenjin commmunities around Eldoret who provided similar accounts. In many communities, local leaders and ODM mobilizers arranged frequent meetings following the election to organize, direct and facilitate the violence unleashed by gangs of local youth. In one case, an ODM councillor candidate is said to have provided a lorry to ferry youth to burn the homes of Kikuyu families in a neighboring community.
Many Kalenjin community leaders told Human Rights Watch that if the area’s ODM leadership or the local Kalenjin radio station KASS FM told people unequivically to stop attacks on Kikuyu homes, then they believe the violence would stop. “If the leaders say stop, it will stop immediately,” said one Kalenjin elder.
Human Rights Watch also collected accounts from several Kalenjin men present at community meetings where local elders and ODM mobilizers urged Kalenjin residents to contribute money toward the purchase of automatic weapons. Some communities have reportedly managed to obtain such weapons already. The same sources confirmed that plans have already been made to attack camps of displaced Kikuyu and the two remaining neighborhoods in Eldoret town where many Kikuyu homes remain intact – Langas and Munyaka. continued...
See , even this liberal crap is assumed to be true. Opposition leaders are NOT right to challenge a "rigged election" in the streets of a tribal society. There was an administrative law challenge. It was decided against the Orange Party, and that was the end of it.Its TRIBAL politics.
Kenya is a TRIBAL democracy. The real decisions are made in a tribal way, the democratic represenative government as an institution is merely there for consensual decision making, The real power is weilded by tribal elders. Thus peaceful government in Kenya depends on inter-tribal social exchanges, intermarriage between the tribes, educational exchanges and economic exchanges. It DOES NOT DEPEND ON AN ELECTION
That is why Obama and his Black Nationalist, Black Power racism had no place in a Kenyan election. Obama is a neocolonialist, wanting to colonize Kenya for "Black Americans". Then set up an "Aid Funding " system which provides kick back to black American politicians ( Jefferson Case in Point). At the same time it creates a tyrant who will follow the Black Power American Politicians policies, including supporting Muslim nationalist expansion. Kenyans have finally figured that out. Black Power US politicians are just as "bad" as the British colonialists, if not worse.
Now the tribal remedy of "power sharing" between opponents has been accepted by Odinga. If he starts screwing around again with the Black Power schtick, and the advancement of the Muslim Councils goals in Kenya in order to create Soamlia II, then you will see him OFFED quite quickly.Dead, Wiped,Assassinated, call it what you will. Thats tribal politics, which BTW, works in Kenya.
Liberalism in Kenya only creates a huge misunderstanding.Liberals do NOT quite know what they are dealing with in tribal society. Liberals cannot accept tribal society, and want to end it, so the liberals themselves are "racists."
If a tribal government is stable, keeps the peace, and supports a good economy, attracts international investment, then there is very little wrong with it, UNLESS YOU HAPPEN TO BE A FREAKIN' LIBERAL SOCIALIST WITH AN IDEOLOGICAL UTOPIAN AXE TO GRIND!!!!!!
Such is Obama. And Such will be his demise.