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| Victims "burned alive" NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- The violence plaguing western Kenya's Rift Valley spread to the country's Western Province Monday, according to an official with the International Committee of the Red Cross. As many as 30 people were herded Sunday into a building and burned to death, the Red Cross said; several others were hacked to death by people wielding machetes. The death toll in Naivasha was not clear. The Kenyan Red Cross went Monday to the city morgue not to count bodies but to ensure that proper methods were in place so that the bodies could be identified and family members could find out what happened, ICRC's Barrett said. "One of the problems is that many people can't get to the morgues," he said. "They are afraid to leave the camps. If the bodies are buried, there has to be some way of identifying them later on." Who needs armies of invading orcs to ignite one's Tolkein imagination? The faery tales turn out to be less paper and more flesh and blood. |
| Violence spreading in Kenya, Red Cross official says CNN | January 30, 2008 |
| Further Information: The unrest has its roots in tribal grievances that date back to 1963, when the country gained independence from Britain and land was allocated to various tribal factions in a process some deemed unfair. "What is now emerging is that criminal gangs, in a killing spree, working under police protection, are part of a well-orchestrated plan of terror, [and] spread and escalate the levels of violence," Raila Odinga of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement said. But Human Rights Watch last week accused opposition party officials and local elders of organizing the ethnic-based violence, which has targeted mostly Kikuyu and Kisii people. "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, the group's acting Africa director. |
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