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Showing posts with label post electoral conflict kenia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label post electoral conflict kenia. Show all posts

Monday, January 21, 2008

Kenian situation is getting worse,....

Next is taken from 'the vigilante journalist' and is a good explanation and pictures of how is Kenia now. Not much to say, but that things are worse and there is really very little hope for improvement within next month or so.

this is the link: http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/

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A man brandishing a Machete in Mathari North speaks in front of a crowd

Mathari North was an absolute nightmare today and it doesn’t look as though things will settle down anytime soon. ODM has called for a fresh round of mass action protests next week and killings have continued to occur at night and during the day on both sides. We are seeing an increased polarization of all the other tribes versus Kikuyu, and tension is mounting on all sides in all sectors. There is reason for concern that things will spiral out of control and that tribal animosity may spread to the middle classes and spill over into the streets of downtown Nairobi if leaders don’t do something fast to try to remedy the situation.

It is difficult to get a full body count for Mathari as many parts are so dangerous that journalists and aid workers are unable to go in. The last tally I received was 3 dead, and 12 seriously wounded for today, but killings are sure to continue through the night and into tomorrow. I was unable to ascertain the specific nature of all the reported wounded.

I arrived in Mathari North early in the evening at a horrific scene. A man accused of being a spy by a mixture of tribes (other than Kikuyu) laid in a pool of his own blood, still breathing, as bystanders continued to beat. His skull was bashed in and he stopped breathing just as we were leaving the scene. Two men lay dead in the street having suffered a similar fate not far away in another section of Mathari but we were unable to get to them due to the security situation.
There have been increasing reports that the Mungiki, a highly organized Kikuyu gang, have been active in Mathari and that they are being helped by the General Service Units (GSU) or Red Berets. It is alleged that they are being armed and given GSU uniforms by the latter and that they often come in after police raids to slash people. Members of tribes other than Kikuyu in Mathari say they have killed Mungiki members and suspected informants such as the man pictured below in order to protect their own people.

I spent the afternoon hanging about a makeshift displaced people’s camp on the main road to Mathari. There is virtually no security for those staying there, mostly Kikuyu who fled Mathari, and reports of attacks at night abound, though apparently no one has been injured as yet. Living conditions are abhorrent. Below are a few pictures from the camp.

Two Kikuyu men living in a makeshift tent just outside Mathari
Children peer through a car window in the refugee camp outside Mathari

GSU and AP units charge into a residential section of Kibera in Nairobi

AP units fire tear gas into a residential section of Kibera in Nairobi

Two lay dead after police fired live rounds into an unarmed crowd

A boy not involved in the protests was shot in the face inside his neighborhood by police



A teenage boy who was shot in the eye during protests in Kibera writhes in pain as he waits for an ambulance to arrive

Friday, January 04, 2008

Mas fotos sobre Kenia

Estas fotos tambien son del conflicto en Kenia,.. muestran como la gente salio a votar de manera importante,.. (igual que en Mexico),.. bueno mejor verlas,..



Othaya: A group of Kenyan men sit outside a barber shop with a campaign poster for President Mwai Kibaki in his home town.



Nairobi: A supporter of opposition leader Raila Odinga rests his hands on a barbed wire fence during a rally at a local stadium before the elections.


Kibera: People wait in line to cast their vote in the most populous slum in Africa


Nairobi: Kenyans wanting to vote crowd the entrance to a school room used as a voting station


Nairobi: Election workers count votes at a polling station


Ngong Town: Kenyan army soldiers and policemen fire tear gas and live rounds as they take cover behind ballot boxes after an angry crowd started throwing stones into Oloolaisel seconday school where the vote counting for Kajiado North was taking place


Kibera: Residents demonstrate at the entrance of the slum


Kisumu: Rioters shout in front of a burning house
Kibera: Supporters of the Orange Democratic party loot petrol from a kiosk during riots

Mathare: A supporter of opposition leader Raila Odinga is beaten by two supporters of President Mwai Kibaki during a street fight

Mathare: A boy runs past a burning barricade during disturbances in a neighbourhood of Nairobi
Mathare: A man is beaten after being caught looting a shoe store

Mathare: Supporters of President Mwai Kibai flee after backers of Riala Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) burn their homes and businesses
Nairobi: Mwai Kibaki is sworn in at the presidential palace


Mathare: Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga run from police after torching some houses
Kibera: Kenyans wave 'pangas' (or machetes) during a demonstration

orogocho: A man sits in the back of a police van with bodies collected from a Nairobi slum

Kibera: Opposition supporters taunt members of the police

Kibera: A resident who was beaten by policemen is helped by the Kenyan Red Cross

Nairobi: Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga talks to journalists

Nairobi: Store owners mark outline of what used to be their shop after it was destroyed by looters

Conflictos post electorales en Kenia y México

Hubo fraude! Que se recuenten los votos! Que se repita la elección! Estas expresiones bien pudieran atribuirse a quienes en los medios de comunicación tratan de minimizar a no más de ‘una veintena de simpatizantes del tabasqueño ex-candidato presidencial’, pero no, se trata de los reclamos que muchos kenianos opositores al presidente Mwai Kibaki.

El problema pareciera ser complejo, o por lo menos así lo pintan los medios de comunicación. Se trata de rivalidades entre grupos étnicos, dicen. Otros dicen que el problema electoral vino a agravar el sectarismo que ya existía. Sin embargo, no es claro para mi como es que los kenianos salieron a votar en relativa tranquilidad, luego al conocer que el resultado de las actas de casilla no coincidían con los que reportaban al nivel distrital y estos a su vez distaban de los que al nivel nacional se daban a conocer decidieron salir a las calles a protestar.

También dicen que los que salieron a las calles lo hicieron de manera violenta. Sin embargo, resulta interesante que quienes salieron a protestar viven en los llamados ‘slums’ o ‘ghetos’ africanos. Lo cierto, según versiones de amigos en el área, es que hubo una acción y una reacción.
La acción fue provocar la violencia, y en ella tomaron parte tanto el ejército, la policía y grupos paramilitares. Solo hay que recordar que la masacre en donde quemaron vivos a 30 personas, entre ellos varios niños, estuvo a cargo de grupos armados. Y quienes viven en ‘slums’ no tienen armas o las armas que tienen son palos y machetes.

La reacción fue precisamente eso: la gente salió a defenderse en contra de la agresión. Policías y militares son fácilmente identificables pero difíciles de lidiar sin armas, en cambio los paramilitares son difíciles de identificar y más fácil de atacar debido a que no portan tantas armas, a menos que se trate de escuadrones de la muerte. Así que el conflicto se convirtió en un asunto entre civiles. Por un lado quienes no aceptan el resultado de las elecciones, los opositores al presidente Mwai. Por otro lado los partidarios del oficialismo. Lógicamente, ambos bandos son objetivos de las agresiones del otro.

Desde luego el presidente Mwai presto juramento, en ceremonia privada y fuertemente custodiado por sus guardaespaldas, policías, y militares. Mientras tanto, se intensifican las demandas por llevar a cabo nuevas elecciones. Al parecer, ni Mwai ni los intereses que están detrás de el estarían de acuerdo. Hay que recordar que Mwai es abiertamente pro-gringo, mientras que las voces europeas son quienes están presionando por una nueva elección.

Es increíble el paralelismo que hay entre los procesos electorales en Kenia y en México. Pareciera que la CIA hubiera tomado el patrón electoral de la florida y lo estuviera aplicando a diestra y siniestra. El fraude electoral, y sus mecanismos son muy similares. Por ejemplo, según los resultados que reporto la comisión electoral para la 6 y media de la tarde del día de la elección Odinga, el opositor, superaba por más de 500 mil votos al presidente, de un total de un poco más de 14 millones de votantes registrados. Como en México, la noche o mejor dicho la madrugada trajo sorpresas y Mwai terminó ganando por algo así como 230 mil votos.

Curiosamente, el nombre completo del opositor es Raila Amolo Odinga. Esto no implica mas que una mera casualidad que Amolo sea tan parecido a nuestro AMLO. Por lo menos la diferencia entre ambos es más que una ‘o’. Hay que recordar que desde el inicio de la protesta en contra del fraude electoral en México, AMLO hizo mucho énfasis en la NO VIOLENCIA y en no caer en provocaciones. Odinga, en cambio ha hecho llamados a la no violencia, sin embargo su liderazgo ha sido rebasado por la falta de organización y las provocaciones tan brutales que han acorralado a sus simpatizantes en una especie de autodefensa y agresión.

Otra cuestión interesante, para quienes insisten en ver y oír los medios mexicanos, será el observar como presentan la información sobre el conflicto en Kenia. Como evitar hacer comparaciones con nuestra propia historia de corrupción y fraudes electorales. Que dirá López Dóriga? Tal vez, y como es ya costumbre solo dirán que ‘son conflictos entre grupos étnicos contrarios’, como lo hicieran cuando la masacre en Acteal.

Bush and Mwai Kibaki Kenian president

An area of the Kibera slum which was razed to the ground after days of rioting

A policeman holds a teargas canister to his mouth as he walks in front of protestors
An opposition supporter who was beaten by a mob using clubs, machetes and crude weapons on a road outside the Mathare slum

A man raises his arms in triumph as a mob attacked people and set houses and businesses on fire in the the slum of Mathare

A boy throws sewage water on burning buildings as a protestor attempts to destroy a building in the background


A policeman walks past burning buildings during riots in the Mathare slum


Residents of the Kibera slum salvage the gate of a house that was set on fire


A man carries a sack of cement he looted during the disturbances


Police march past a burning barricade in the Mathare slum as they try to stop clashes between two rival groups