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Opposition supporters protest after elections, claiming they were rigged. 24 shot by police so far. This is what happens when police learn crowd control with live ammunition.

Kenya election: death toll rises as protests continue
12 August 2017
Kenya’s post-election violence worsened on Saturday as police used tear gas on a convoy of opposition officials in the capital and a mortuary official said nine bodies with gunshot wounds were brought to a Nairobi morgue from a slum that is an opposition stronghold.

At least 24 people have been killed by police gunfire since Tuesday’s election, said the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, which monitors government institutions. It appealed to senior officials to urge police to stop using live ammunition against civilians...
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Anchor Moy wrote: Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:15 pm Opposition supporters protest after elections, claiming they were rigged. 24 shot by police so far. This is what happens when police learn crowd control with live ammunition.

Kenya election: death toll rises as protests continue
12 August 2017
Kenya’s post-election violence worsened on Saturday as police used tear gas on a convoy of opposition officials in the capital and a mortuary official said nine bodies with gunshot wounds were brought to a Nairobi morgue from a slum that is an opposition stronghold.

At least 24 people have been killed by police gunfire since Tuesday’s election, said the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, which monitors government institutions. It appealed to senior officials to urge police to stop using live ammunition against civilians...
From The Guardian
Damn shame. The real story is the same that happened after the 2007 elections. Politicians from all sides paying armed gangs to cause bloody tribal war. I haven't read the report yet, but they didn't mention that a couple of days ago. I was there in 2009 and people were telling me it was a civil war after the elections. They didn't even dare to go out in the day to get food.
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- The morning has seen much violence: teenagers throwing rocks, police firing teargas. During the night, Mathare, a sprawling slum in Nairobi, has echoed to the sound of gunfire and police helicopters. There have been many casualties, some fatal.

Now there is a pause. The police are waiting. So too are the youths they have pursued through the narrow lanes for almost 18 hours – since the Kenyan election commission declared Uhuru Kenyatta, in power since 2013, had won the presidential polls held on Tuesday by a substantial margin.

Down a side lane, a family is grieving. At 10.30am eight-year-old Stephanie Mora was hit by a bullet as she stood by a balcony on the fourth floor of a crumbling tenement overlooking a market in Mathare North. Smeared blood and a pockmark in the wall show where she was standing. She died almost immediately. Her parents threaded their way through the chaos to take her body to the mortuary. “She was an innocent child,” said Dennis Ojolo, 30, the dead girl’s uncle.

But among the forbidding, overcrowded, filthy buildings that line the rubbish-strewn alley where the girl died, the language is political. “There is no chance of freedom here. This was a stolen election,” said Jefferson Odiambo, 24.
It is this sentiment of betrayal which threatens violence in the days, even weeks to come. ..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... urn-deadly
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:34 pm There have been many casualties, some fatal.
Wow, how unusual. :plus1:
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:34 pm - The morning has seen much violence: teenagers throwing rocks, police firing teargas. During the night, Mathare, a sprawling slum in Nairobi, has echoed to the sound of gunfire and police helicopters. There have been many casualties, some fatal.

Now there is a pause. The police are waiting. So too are the youths they have pursued through the narrow lanes for almost 18 hours – since the Kenyan election commission declared Uhuru Kenyatta, in power since 2013, had won the presidential polls held on Tuesday by a substantial margin.

Down a side lane, a family is grieving. At 10.30am eight-year-old Stephanie Mora was hit by a bullet as she stood by a balcony on the fourth floor of a crumbling tenement overlooking a market in Mathare North. Smeared blood and a pockmark in the wall show where she was standing. She died almost immediately. Her parents threaded their way through the chaos to take her body to the mortuary. “She was an innocent child,” said Dennis Ojolo, 30, the dead girl’s uncle.

But among the forbidding, overcrowded, filthy buildings that line the rubbish-strewn alley where the girl died, the language is political. “There is no chance of freedom here. This was a stolen election,” said Jefferson Odiambo, 24.
It is this sentiment of betrayal which threatens violence in the days, even weeks to come. ..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... urn-deadly
Yes, let's hope it doesn't go to the 2007 levels. Was the election rigged? Probably. Just like it will be here. One of the Kenyan election officials who was in possession of all the passwords for the computerised voting system was found tortured and murdered a few days before the election.

My feelings are it won't be as bad as the 2007 ones, They were the first time since Jomo Kenyatta that Kenyan's beleived there was really​ going to be a change of tribe in the government. All the people who had sold land to Kikuyu (at double or more prices than they would have sold it to their own or other tribes) over the previous 30 years, decided to claim it was their ancesteral tribal land and they wanted it back. Hopefully they had enough of what happened in 2007 not to do it to the same levels again.
There will be plenty of opportunists hoping that shit goes down so they can loot all the shops again.

Nakumatt, a large shopping center on the​ main road out of Mombasa, was totaly looted. Unfortunately for the looters and shoppers caught up inside, the security locked all the doors of the already burning buildng and a lot of people inside were fried.

Plenty of info in the Kenyan papers at the time about the leaders and other members of the political parties payng and handing out weapons to cause, what many people have called, a civil war. I know quite a few high-flyer's were up in court over it. Not sure if any were successfully prosecuted though. Thank buddha Cambodia doesn't have so much of the tribal thing going on. If it did, one could perhaps equate the vast all controlling tribe of the Kikuyu with the Khmer.
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This is the legacy they were left with...https://cage.ngo/article/britains-war-east-africa/

As usual, Britain setting them up to fail.
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vladimir wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2017 4:16 pm This is the legacy they were left with...https://cage.ngo/article/britains-war-east-africa/

As usual, Britain setting them up to fail.
Spot on mate. Here's some​ more British embassy news from your article.
In secret detention, MI5 agents interrogated captives, including Britons who assumed they would receive assistance from the embassy.

“She told me that if I told her what she wanted to hear, I would be on the first plane back to the UK, but if I didn’t’ t come up with the information she wanted, I would stay here forever”, recalls a young British man who was rendered
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From the people who gave you Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel..another fuck up..who woulda guessed? :)
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..who woulda guessed?"

Probably Ghandi.
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vladimir wrote: Sun Aug 13, 2017 5:13 pm From the people who gave you Pakistan, Afghanistan and Israel..another fuck up..who woulda guessed? :)
Musharraf was responsible for the Islamisation of Pakistan, very much an Indian from Delhi, and Israel was created due to the French. All the jewish terrorist organisations were HQ'd in France, the French gave them ships. Afghanistan has been a fuck up ever since people moved into that part of the mountains. Russian and British money did very little to change them.
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