By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis [ Enlarge ]
Idiotic tourism consumers, pathetic safari travelers, corrupt businessmen, consummate pedophile predators, Anti-African racists, drug dealers, illegal arms dealers, decayed noblesse, homosexual couples, hypocritical missionaries, human traffickers and all sorts of white trash have been addicted to scrapbooking in order to illustrate and commemorate their Kenyan vacations.

Evil western mass media, functioning under full freemasonic control, excessively featured this fake image of the East African pseudo-country. Thus, they managed to impose a totally false perception of the colonial fabrication ‘Kenya’ among the western societies.

At the same time, persecuted people, oppressed religious minorities, tyrannized ethnic groups and African nations, who have been forcefully incorporated into this fake state that they never felt as theirs, faced the ugly face, the brutal behaviour, and the tribal enmity of the UK-imposed Kikuyu regime, which is in turn controlled by the few Kikuyu who are selected by the evil apostate lodges of London for Freemasonic apprenticeship and Kenya’s top administrative positions.

Socially secluded, politically marginalized, economically deprived, culturally depersonalized and religiously threatened, the unjustly targeted masses of the Kenyan periphery have become shadowy figures confined in the realm of inexistence for many long decades.

It is only normal that their comeback will destroy the colonial fabrication ‘Kenya‘ that was geared to merely serve the West’s illegal interests, facilitate England’s immoral interference in East Africa, and please the fancy of the racists who control the political establishments of Washington, London and Paris.

Before the fabrication of the East African pseudo-nation in the so-called postcolonial era, not a single native African had ever imagined that a state like Kenya could possibly exist. There is nothing to logically unite the Luo, the Maasai, the Borana Oromo, and the Ogaden Somalis with one another and with the Kikuyu and the other Mt. Kenya tribes.

But the English colonial strategists needed to combine their Anti-Islamic hysteria with their Anti-African hatred, thus plunging all the indigenous peoples to a calamitous swamp of misery, underdevelopment, and lamentation. The double target involved:

1.   the avoidance of the emergence of an East African Islamic Republic spanning from Egypt to Mozambique – with the Somali Nation as the focal prodigy, and

2.   the avoidance of the emergence of a Hamitic — Kushitic — Nilo-Saharan Confederation spanning from the sources of the Nile to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic – with the Oromos, the Fur, the Nuer, the Nubians, the Tuareg, the Berbers and the Hausa as the principal players.

The colonial method of spreading pestilence, chaos and catastrophe is the same all over the world. It is based on a genuinely silly but viciously inhuman mindset geared to generate colossal profit for the benefiting part and detrimental loss for the injured part. The loss is due to two main factors:

1.   Deprivation of cultural integrity, national historicity, socio-behavioral authenticity, sociopolitical identity, and linguistic distinctiveness

2.   Amalgamation with other ethno-religious groups and nations under conditions of superimposition / subordination, depravity, discrimination, and ultimately tyranny.

In fact, the creation of fake states like Kenya, Tanzania, etc. guaranteed a momentary success for the European and American colonials. This ended up with the systematic persecution of Islam throughout Eastern Africa and the methodic elimination of any perspective which would generate a national renaissance of a Hamitic — Kushitic nation as per the typical European model.

This is the two-fold biased rule of the colonial success:

A.   Ukrainians must be separated from the Russians as an independent nation, but the Oromos must be forced to be amalgamated with the Amhara and the Tigray in Abyssinia, and the Kikuyu in Kenya.

B.   There can be a Christian Democrat Party in Germany, but there cannot be an Islamic Democrat Party in Somalia.

The tyranny and the discrimination lasted for decades but the collapse of Soviet Union, the rise of China as superpower, and consequently, America’s needs for global domination, through an effective encirclement of the Euro-Asiatic landmass, constitute the changing dynamics of the Horn of Africa politics.

America needs spacious land and sea bases in the coastal areas of Yemen and Somalia; the pretext for this is called ‘Islamic Terrorism‘. This term has been coined by the US Secret Services that planned and executed the evil plan of September 11th.

To use the September 11th as pretext, they had prepared the situation in Afghanistan over the span of many years. Pakistani army would have removed the Taliban regime at any given moment in the 90s; but this did not occur. Following September 11th, Afghanistan was summarily held responsible, then ,invaded and ever since occupied.

The creation of a chaotic situation in parts of Somalia and Yemen suggests that, following a second, nuclear September 11th, the so miraculously promoted Shabaab of Somalia will be held responsible, and consequently parts of Somalia and Yemen will be invaded — just like Afghanistan in 2001.

It is therefore critical to understand that America is not opposing but promoting Islamic Terrorism. The pattern / plan is Anglo-French but the implementation process is American. In both cases, Somalia and Yemen, it is evident that America has systematically acted in a way to locally reinforce the extremist Muslims.

Last May, in an article titled ‘The Freemasonic Lerna Hydra Against Somalia: TFG, Al Shabaab, CIA Operative Al Amriki, UN Top Envoy’ (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/102306), writing about Somalia, I said the following:

“The Shabaab — Like the Somali pirates, the Shabaab represent another case of colonial involvement. In this regard, the colonial infiltration took another form. Instead of bribing some tribal authorities and local Mafia lords (which was enough to trigger the Somali piracy epiphenomenon), high tech was utilized by the US secret services. Remote mind control machinery implemented in unconscious CIA operatives, implanted chips, and a bunch of associated technologies ensure the availability of CIA operatives among those who declare open and frontal opposition to America, Europe, Christianity, Judaism, Zionism, and the Western World in its entirety.

Some thoughts — in this regard:

One can notice in this regard that, for some months after the early arrival of the (then uncontrolled by the CIA) Shebaab in Somalia’s southernmost confines, earlier this year, Kenyan army had enough time to eliminate an unnecessary and still weak enemy. In March 2009, it would be a mere promenade for the Kenyan army to invade the southernmost confines of Somalia up to Kismayu and/or Merka and hand over the territory to AMISOM and the forces related with the TFG president.

Who prevented Kenya from undertaking a brief military expedition then?

Certainly those who have planned otherwise.

In fact, the Shabaab have been radicalized after the arrival of Abu Mansoor Al Amriki. Until then, communication channels were open among Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, Sheikh Hassan Turki, and Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys. Of course, the formation of different groups (Hizb ul Islam) does not imply either opposition or confrontation. The deterioration in the relationship started after the arrival in Southern Somalia of the top CIA operative Abu Mansoor Al Amriki. Why?

Because if united, the three sheikhs represent a trustful alternative to the fake TFG regime, and supported by a majority of the Somalis, they would be in a position to achieve Somalia’s definite pacification, reunification and rehabilitation — which is precisely what the Freemasonic colonial establishment of London, Paris and Washington does not want.

In fact, the arrival of Abu Mansoor Al Amriki in Somalia is, in and by itself, a scandal. If he is considered as an Al Qaeda operative, why he was not arrested?

Who facilitated the comfortable and highly secured travel of a “terrorist“? Simply all those who want to use this CIA operative against Somalia.

And why publicize the faraway “conference” of a terrorist? Why on earth give space and fame to someone characterized as Islamic extremist who even does not have his own group, and who is alien to the religion he claims to defend and to the country he tries to supposedly save?

Who publicized Abu Mansoor Al Amriki’s 5th of April conference? Those who facilitate the game of Abu Mansoor Al Amriki’s remote instructors.

Who wants to drive the three Somali leaders to opposition, confrontation and reciprocal extermination? Who else but Abu Mansoor Al Amriki’s remote instructors, the forces that implement the policy of Somalia’s annihilation.”

As a matter of fact, the ominous plan for the entire Horn of Africa region, if successfully carried out, will not only spread disaster in Somalia and Yemen; it will cause a far wider destabilization, and there will be no possible containment policy. Kenya, Abyssinia (fake ‘Ethiopia’) and Tanzania will be terribly shaken.

Inter-religious clashes will therefore become frequent, critical and extreme; the idyllic situation that was the myth created by the Western mass media will disappear, and ‘Islamic terrorism’ will be held responsible for the development by the unrepentant, ignorant and malignant Western journalists and analysts.

Today’s Pakistan will then be viewed as an exotic country if compared with the degradation of the situation in Kenya, Abyssinia (fake ‘Ethiopia’) and Tanzania.

That is why today various journalists originating from the fake state of Kenya express merely their imagination and wishful thinking when writing about the fake country’s chances to face “radical Islam”.

I came to notice John Onyando’s editorial ‘Kenya: combatting radical Islam‘; I find it totally misleading and absolutely unrealistic. I republish it at the end of the present article as an example to avoid.

The idea that the US will change its Somali policy to save Kenya is ludicrous.

The author admits the existence of a “profound radicalization” and fails to understand that this is the logical and rightful result of the existence – for many long decades – of the absolutely illegal, totally unjustified, and — note this — inherently anti-Islamic state of Kenya. The forgery of Kenya is a direct act against the existence of Islam; to deny this means to contribute to the worsening of the overall situation.

The idea of Kenya (or any African country) working “closely” with the US is itself criminal, immoral and inhuman; it testifies to bribery, corruption, betrayal of all African nations. Any African who imagines possible any sort of interaction, let alone collaboration, with the colonial powers, England and France, and their current substitute and offspring, the regime of Washington, and propagates this idea, perpetrates an act of high treason, because the said powers have ceaselessly worked over the past two centuries to physically exterminate, politically enslave and culturally / religiously disfigure all Africans.

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Faisal’s imprisonment is in itself a minor and marginal issue. One can describe it as the evident peak of a huge, mostly hidden, iceberg. What was done against Islam, and above all, against East African Muslims’ rightful desire to politically, culturally and nationally control the entire coast of Eastern Africa cannot and will not be forgotten.

The thought that “repression makes Kenya no good” seems logical and rightful but it is not; it belongs to a naïve analyst who insists on avoiding to see the plain truth. Fabricated because of colonial interests against the diverse nations that have been forcefully imprisoned inside this Freemasonic Hell, formed against its Muslim population’s will, and geared to eradicate Islam, Kenya could not have a chance in the trillion not to be repressive. The moment repression ends in Kenya, that moment will be its last.

How ignorant of his own country must the author be! He boasts that “Thanks to cooperation with America, Kenya has good counterterrorism systems”! How comical! Kenyan police and army smuggle arms into the Somali South to empower the CIA-sponsored Shabaab to prevail over the authentic patriotic Somali front Hezb ul Islam. But for John Onyando this means “good counterterrorism systems”!

In true terms, Kenya’s murderous dictator Kibaki, a shameful Freemason who made an oath to irrevocably bury Africa (racism is the epitome of the Freemasonic dogmas), overtly promotes his masters’ pro-terrorist schemes.

The historical truth and the political reality of Kenya are however hidden in a simple sentence of Onyando’s text: “Changes in the Kenyan economy are recasting the role of the Coastal regions, which the International Organisation of Migration has found to be fertile grounds for extremist elements”!

The aforementioned means simply this: an extensive program of financial corruption has been elaborated to be soon implemented in the coastal regions where the local population, consisted in its majority of oppressed and marginalized Muslims, reject their forced inclusion in the Hell of Freemason Kibaki’s Kenya, and actively support locally based liberation fronts to achieve secession and independence through the ultimate collapse of the Cemetery of Nations “Kenya”.

As it is worldwide known, the fighters, who act to implement the Freemasonic agenda, are shamelessly called “liberators” by the Satanic mass media of the West; contrarily, those who act against the Freemasonic agenda, are disgracefully labeled “extremist elements”.

I can easly hypothesize that some Kenyan “extremist elements” have every reason to remember the name of John Onyando during the forthcoming fascinating period of East Africa’s map redrawing.

Kenya: combatting radical Islam
http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/john-onyando/kenya-combatting-radical-islam

By John Onyando
(A journalist working in Nairobi, Kenya)

Before Kenya can succeed in stemming the radicalisation of its Muslim minority, the US will have to change its Somali policy.

The protest in Nairobi on 15 January by a handful of Muslim youth, in which four people were killed, revealed a profound radicalisation and inter-faith resentment among Nairobi’s Muslims. Kenya must address this if it is going to avoid Nigeria-style violence in the future. It should work closely with the United States, which apart from being an important player in Somalia is involved in interconnected regional initiatives.

The protests shook the foundations of tolerance in Kenya as nothing has before. It prompted some civilians to cheer the police, which is generally reviled for its many crimes against the people. Vigilantes even joined the battle on their side. But on the other hand it led to an armed protester — believed to have smuggled a gun into the protest — shooting at a policeman. The authorities have denied reports of the officer’s death, but have confirmed the sacking of a Muslim officer who defied orders to charge into the protesters.

These riots reopen interfaith differences at a time when Kenyans — in the middle of a constitutional review — least need them. Consequently, the government has announced a comprehensive and urgent investigation. To its credit it has persuaded its Muslim allies to condemn the killings and the demonstration’s organisers, whose leader has now been arrested. That the protesters were fighting over a foreigner, Sheik Abdullah Al-Faisal, who is being held on terrorism charges, fuelled much of the public rage.

Failure to engage

One symptom of Kenya’s chronic failure in the fight against extremism is its refusal to engage with the groups that actually speak for Muslims. Days before the protest Muslim groups had voiced genuine concerns over Al-Faisal’s illegal confinement and hysterical statements by Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang about the man being a terror suspect. The government ignored them, and unleashed the police when they protested.

Another symptom is the delusion that Kenya can have two sets of laws, one for Muslims and one for the rest. Repression does Kenya no good. By killing Muslims it plays into the hands of extremists. Instead of meting out force on innocents, Kenya would do better to deploy her many strategic strengths in the fight against extremism.

The first step should be to tackle problems in the police force, whose penchant for bribes exposes the country to terrorism risks by allowing dubious people across the borders. Thanks to cooperation with America, Kenya has good counterterrorism systems. It should be able to prevent events like Al-Faisal’s entry by enforcing strict border patrol, airline security, and immigration screening or simply by sharing intelligence with other agencies.

Authorities who have publicised Faisal’s terrorist orientation have little to say on how he entered Kenya overland from Tanzania unnoticed at the Lunga Lunga border point. They tell us that the database with the watch list on it was being replaced at the time. This excuse will not wash. If that were true, the officers would have examined the records of the few hundred travellers they had allowed in immediately once the system was reinstalled. Instead, it took the Americans to alert Kenya of Al-Faisal’s presence, by which time he was already in a mosque preaching!

Even then, Kenya did not use the information prudently. Rather than deport the man — Faisal broke no law and can’t be charged — ministers ran amok, publicising the man’s terror credentials and his extremist orientation. Their botched attempt at deportation flouted international norms. The Tanzanians rejected the cleric at Lunga Lunga border point on grounds that Kenya did not notify them in time. The Nigerians, with their own problems following the Christmas Day bombing frenzy, were in no position to take in another terrorist.

So Kenya has had to host Faisal for ten days, during which time it has been accusing Britain and the US, who are supposedly better placed to handle his case, of forsaking the country at its hour of need. In actual fact, Kenya exaggerated the risk Al-Faisal posed here, generating a furore that it has failed to manage.

None of this is to deny that Faisal is a dangerous man. Britain claims that his preaching inspired one of the 7/7 London bombers, and even Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab. He may have contacts with Al Qaeda in Somalia, which the US says is rapidly expanding into an ambitious regional network.

Changes in the Kenyan economy are recasting the role of the Coastal regions, which the International Organisation of Migration has found to be fertile grounds for extremist elements. While Kenya attracts badly-needed foreign investment, it must take care to establish the backgrounds of foreign investors, some of whom have criminal ties. Al-Faisal himself was legally allowed to enter Kenya. Ongoing swoops on Somali neighbourhoods smack of racial profiling. It is difficult to understand why a government that routinely welcomes dubious businessmen and tourists should harass refugees fleeing a grave humanitarian crisis imposed upon them by a needless war.

Kenya should distinguish itself from the repressive policing of Ethiopia, as such tactics strengthen the hand of extremists. With each new protest against genuine grievances, and each draconian response by the police, it becomes harder to argue that Kenya is not repressing Muslims. This is the propaganda that Al Shabaab needs. Live television transmission of the protest incited a bigger albeit peaceful demo in Mombasa. Scenes of police firing tear gas into Nairobi’s main mosque are outright insensitive, but also fuels the radicalisation that helps extremists.

Changing US policy

To check Al Shabaab, Kenya needs to persuade America to calibrate its policy in a way that makes the prospect of unifying the Somalis realistic. The Somali crisis is a political problem, with Al Shabaab one of the key players. While Kenya cannot change America’s policy or interests, no country is better placed than Kenya, which is most at most risk from the radicalisation of Somali youth, to persuade the US to find a solution that meets the legitimate aspirations of all Somalis.

As a senator and presidential candidate, President Obama had fabulous ideas about Somalia which need testing in light of the negative results of Bush-era military-led policy, which was escalated last year. Al Shabaab is growing primarily because the spectre of American intervention arouses anger and damages further the pitiable reputation of the Transitional Federal Government.

The continuation of the failed military policy may be partly due to the new presidency’s limited choices and his reliance on the policies he has inherited. It might also be that, without a strategic understanding of the evolving crisis, the US is uncertain and paralysed about how to proceed. Why else would it rehabilitate Sheik Sharif, a former Islamic Courts leader it deposed in 2006?

America’s strong national interest in Somalia would be better met by investing in a realistic roadmap for peace, something President Obama must crucially be in need of, and which Kenya should take a key role in formulating. What the international community needs is a Somalia policy that takes into account the internal dynamics in the Horn of Africa as a whole.

In the meantime, no one wants Kenya to roll back on democracy, respect for human rights and the rule of law, so the US should make a real investment in reforming the Kenyan police. This is an absolute pre-requisite to returning to the rule of law. For the inability of the state to provide essential protections is the main cause of the vigilantism which reached a dangerous level on Friday. Corruption within the force and its ephemeral organizations impedes its capacity to fight organised crimes. America is the best placed country to help Kenya address this important issue.

Note – The real face of Kenya: http://www.demotix.com/news/222517/nairobi-police-open-fire-al-faisal-supporters

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   By: Prof. Mahfuz Chowdhury
America has often fought the wrong war, at the wrong time, and against the wrong people. The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan would seem to fall into such categories. Although, apart from the human tragedy, the enormous economic fallout of the Vietnam War might be imagined, the full outcome of the Iraq war must be awaited as it is not over yet. However, the debate on the launch of the Afghan war has only begun and it would take many more years to assess the damage, assuming the war is not going to end anytime soon. This war is also affecting neighboring Pakistan and creating a great controversy in terms of its economic cost and more importantly about whether it is winnable. Opinions vary, but those who doubt that the war could be won seem to be gaining ground.

Here are some of their arguments. Afghanistan was such a sectarian and unmanageable country that super powers like the Soviets and earlier the British failed to control it. This country has not changed much since those days. The enemy that America is fighting in Afghanistan is elusive and the situation on the battleground itself is very erratic and unpredictable. The daily news of horrors such as the recent killings of the chief CIA operative including 6 other colleagues in Afghanistan, and the unprecedented and ever increasing human carnage in neighboring Pakistan should provide some important clues. In fact, the escalating conflict and mayhem in Pakistan, a nuclear country, is now adding to the genuine fear that its nuclear weapons are not safe in the hands of its government.

Is America’s goal to contain terrorism or to oppose organized Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan? If the fight is to contain fundamentalism, winning this war in Afghanistan alone is not likely to achieve it. The skeptics should only look at the unrelenting and vicious terrorist activities as well as the outright defiance that is spreading not only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also in Yemen, Somalia, Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and many other countries, including America itself. (Note the recent shooting rampage by an American army psychiatrist in Fort Hood, Texas, that claimed 13 lives plus many more injuries). Clearly, there are innumerable signs that the conflict is spreading. Indeed, after the failed 2009 Christmas Day bombing plot on a flight from Amsterdam, the U.S. government imposed intense screening of passengers at airports worldwide from 14 terror suspect nations. America had thought that it had found a willing partner in the Yemeni government that would support the deployment of American troops to fight the rising Islamic militants there. But it has been reported that the government of Yemen has rebuffed the idea for fear of losing popular support.

Religious fundamentalism is nothing new as it has been in existence since the birth of religion itself. The main theme of every religion was supposed to guide people to lead a noble life. Yet human society has experienced enormous oppression, suppression, violence, crime, brutality, fatality, and war in the name of religion. No religion is immune from the appeal of fundamentalism, and fundamentalist practices are still very much in existence, though subtly in some cases and violently in others. Without a doubt, Muslims have had their share of religious violence, and the present situation is no different. But to blame only Muslims for what is happening now would be morally wrong. How could one justify what Jews are doing to Muslims in the Middle East? Does not anyone see how Israel is provoking the Muslims?

Every heinous act of terrorism is a serious crime, and it must never be condoned under any circumstance, be it individual or collective. But, instead of looking or treating every terrorist act equally, if society condones or overlooks one and tries to punish the other, it only intensifies violence. This is precisely what seems to be the case with Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.

Islam is a world religion with a great following, and it certainly deserves respect. Yet the Muslim community always felt that they were being treated unjustly by the affluent west. The Arab-Israeli conflict has kept that feeling alive and very intense. The Muslims believe that the creation of Israel and the continued atrocities that are being perpetrated by Israel is nothing but a big conspiracy by the west to suppress them. They also believe that the Iraq and Afghan wars initiated by the United States are all part of the same conspiracy. And the religious fundamentalists are taking full advantage of public sentiment to create havoc and spread terrorism everywhere.

America claims itself to be the promoter of human rights and preaches self determination of all people. But it utterly fails to help the Palestinian cause. Why? The most difficult and painful situation for Muslims and other rational people, is to see and accept the sufferings of their fellow brethren in Palestine. The Muslims squarely blame America for the present tragedy because of its unequivocal support of Israel. After many years of armed struggle, the Palestinians have agreed to live peacefully with Israel in the internationally recognized pre 1967 border of Palestine. But Israel steadfastly refuses to compromise and continues to thumb its nose against world opinion by brutally suppressing the Palestinians, using American weaponry.

The best case for the Palestinians has probably been made by none other than the former U.S. President and a Nobel laureate Jimmy Carter, who argues in his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” that Israel’s continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Middle East. The Israeli blockade of Gaza’s 1.5 million residents for the past year?as a collective punishment, which has drawn many international condemnations including allegations of war crimes?is a glaring example of actions that openly provoke Muslims to resent America, which refuses to intervene and stop such Israeli atrocities.

There are other issues of contention for Muslims. America supports Saudi Arabia, an autocratic country with no democratic rights, while it refuses to recognize the democratically elected Palestinian representatives of Hamas in Gaza. By the way, America along with Israel once supported the Hamas in Gaza as a counter to the Fatah movement. On the other hand, many believe that Saudi Arabia is sponsoring fundamentalism by providing financial help to religious schools in Pakistan and other Muslim countries.

Additionally, America went to war in Iraq under false pretexts and different agendas, though it now claims that the purpose was to save the Iraqis from the brutality of Saddam Hussein. Muslims believe that the main purpose for invading Iraq was to protect America’s oil supply. And they have plenty of facts to justify their claim that America is driven by its economic greed. They look at the situation in Darfur, Congo, Myanmar and other countries where America failed to prevent atrocities or promote democratic rights.

Muslims even question the American policy of allowing Israel to hide its nuclear weapons and maintaining its own nuclear stockpile, while it rallies its western allies to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Ironically, America’s success against Iran would depend entirely on the co-operation of China and Russia, which might not be forthcoming as they too have their own world agendas to pursue.

The above exemplifies the ways that America has alienated Muslims over the years. Now the new generation of educated Muslims is getting impatient with American prejudices, and is effectively using the internet to communicate with and receive feedback from each other. The fundamentalists are successfully indoctrinating these young people to resort to violent tactics in the name of “Jihad“, a religious word for martyrdom. America and the rest of the world have already witnessed some of their brutal suicidal acts during and since 9/11. If the core issues are not addressed, even if America wins the war in Afghanistan, it might not dampen the spirit of young Muslims around the world to pursue their resistance. American suppression is likely to embolden the fundamentalists to embrace new or more dangerous tactics of terrorism. Violence begets violence, and it would be impossible for America to monitor, invade, occupy or control every Muslim militant country in the world.

Although it is the sole remaining super power, America seems to be losing its grip on its economic power. The country has yet to recover from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate is hovering around 10 per cent, the federal debt has already surpassed $7.5 trillion, and the federal budget deficit was $1.4 trillion in fiscal year 2009. There are other emerging economic powers now, who are preparing to compete and check American hegemony in the world. In fact, America can no longer continue to impose its will on the world community. Nor can it suppress Islamic fundamentalism or its spread by its military power alone. It clearly needs to reassess its overall foreign policies if it wishes to rein in the fundamentalists and remain an important international player.

The rise of Islamic fundamentalism with its current ferocity is a problem for the Muslim populace as well. But they will be reluctant to join the fight with true conviction unless America is willing to change its attitude towards Muslims and correct its past mistakes. A speedy and just settlement of the Palestinian crisis would be a good start. It should then be followed by a quick withdrawal of American troops from Iraq and a winding down of the Afghan war as fast as possible. Unless America plays its cards right, the consequence of its military exercise in Afghanistan will be just as futile as the war in Vietnam.

About The Author: Professor Mahfuz R. Chowdhury teaches Economics at C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, New York, USA. He has published articles on various issues of Bangladesh and other economic issues, which are posted on numerous web sites. He has wide ranging experience in international business and commerce, and has written on failure of communism & problem with developing countries. His book, “Economic Exploitation of Bangladesh“, addresses the economics of developing countries, using Bangladesh as a case study. | More Articles By Mahfuz R. Chowdhury |

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By David Ochami & Philip Mwakio (The Standard, Kenya)

Kenya is fast becoming a key hub for trafficking of drugs from Afghanistan to the rest of the world.

According to reports by the United Nations, “30 to 35 metric tonnes” of Afghan heroin pass through East Africa each year.

This is two-thirds the volume going through West Africa. The largest ever drug haul in Kenya, in December 2004, was 1.1 metric tonnes with a street value of over Sh13 billion.

The proceeds from the drugs are used to finance terrorism activities in Northern Africa and some other sub-Saharan states. It is also suspected that the illicit drug trade supports the unending conflict in neighbouring Somalia.

The Taliban, among whom the world’s most notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden hides, are reported to earn $100 million (Sh8 billion) a year from protecting the drug trade. Drug barons are rumoured to sit in Afghan government positions raking in billions more. The UN puts the potential export value of Afghan narcotics at about $3.4 billion (Sh270 billion) a year. So much is grown that destroying it all is impossible: With stockpiles of 10,000 metric tonnes awaiting export, the UN this year proposed creating a “flood of drugs” in the country to destroy the value of opium.

Experts say the availability of drugs in Kenyan cities is fueling addiction and spread of HIV and Aids in towns like Mombasa and Nairobi.

The UN says that countries in East and West Africa, including Kenya, are no longer only consumers of drugs but are turning into processing hubs for hard drugs. Some states are “threatened” by the increasing clout of drug cartels.

Last evening, Judith Odhiambo who heads the Anti-Narcotics Unit of the Kenya Police acknowledged a surge in seizures of drug hauls but it was not clear whether that is a result of better law enforcement or an increase in trafficking through Kenya.

“Seizures are rising now,” she said in a brief interview. She did not, however, have definite figures of trends and added she needs to read the UN report first.

The UN says heroin is replacing cocaine whose supply has been going down. Last year 80 per cent of the world’s opium (used to make heroin) came from Afghanistan. Production is up over 239 per cent since 2003, according to US government estimates. Most states preferred by traffickers lack money to implement anti-narcotics strategies.

On November 24, a ministerial declaration supporting UN efforts against drugs and organised crime was signed in Kenya. Dated December 8, the report quotes Antonio Maria Costa, the Executive Director on the UN Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) as saying: “Drugs are enriching not only organized crime but also terrorists and other anti-Government forces,”

He describes the situation as a worrisome development.

“In East Africa…30 to 35 tonnes of Afghan heroin [are] trafficked each year causing a dramatic increase in heroin addiction and spreading of HIV and Aids in the slums of Nairobi and Mombasa.”

The official said the rise is also connected to state failure in Somalia.

“Mainly because of the drastic situation in Somalia, he said, East Africa was becoming a free economic zone for all sorts of trafficking — drugs, migrants, guns, hazardous wastes and natural resources.”

West Africa has traditionally been associated with the international drug trade but Kenya now leads states in East Africa that have emerged as favourites for drug traffickers.

A UN Security Council meeting on global cooperation in fighting international drug trafficking was told that narcotic laboratories are increasingly finding homes in Africa.

The UN bulletin, which reported on the meeting, says that such laboratories have already been found in countries such as Guinea-Bissau. The country’s Cabinet is so compromised, it is referred to as the world’s first “narco-state.”

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon told the meeting that international drug trade is fuelling brutal conflicts, corruption and other crimes besides undermining the rule of law.

The UN chief said in some poor nations proceeds of drug trade distort Gross Domestic Product and disclosed that global co-operation to fight the narcotics menace lags behind cooperation between or among criminal groups.

The CEO of the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse (Nacada) Jennifer Kimani says there is a rising consumption of heroin in Kenya owing to its availability and affordability on the market.

“There is a rise in demand for heroin because it is cheap and available,” she says and adds supply and abuse of the drug has risen lately beyond the traditional Coast province to Kenya’s hinterland.

The Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya According to the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) lack of goodwill from the government was derailing efforts to contain the menace.

“A good example is the Kenyan Coast which has seen the number of youths hooked to illegal drugs on the increase. It is religious leaders and to some extent provincial administration officials who are trying to eradicate drug use here,” Sheikh Mohamed Khalifa, CIPK organising secretary said.

He added that certain individuals known to be involved in drug trade are in good books with senior Government officials who act to protect them arrest.

But Sheikh Juma Ngao, a Nacada director, points an accusing finger at western nations which have reneged on their role to help stop supply of drugs to developing countries.

“There is need to have stiffer international laws in place that could deter transfer and or transportation of drugs to countries like Kenya in the first place,” Sheikh Ngao said.

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One of the most critical aspects of the Horn of Africa crisis concerns China. In fact, it has little to do with China’s merely quantitative presence in the African continent. The economic – technological presence and significance of China in Africa have already been noticed and commented, but this type of achievement, albeit important at the commercial level, has no political consequences, let alone global dimensions.

China must realize that its presence in Africa, although necessary for the country’s needs in terms of resources, exports, commercial partners, and economic penetration, has not yet reached the level of political influence, military involvement, and determinant geo-political impact.

It is essential for Beijing to understand, when it comes to China’s global presence and prevalence, that this critical affair has little to do with the volume of exports and imports and with a veto in the Security Council votes.

In Africa, China finds itself opposed to ca. 250 years of European colonialism which led to the formation of postcolonial regimes that – in order to be totally submitted to the interests, the plans, and the needs of England and France – are by nature totalitarian, racist, criminal, corrupt, and mostly inhuman.

The interaction of all these corrupt and totalitarian regimes of Africa is – in and by itself – another dimension of colonial involvement and perfidy. Below is an example:

1. England and France (plus the US, as a neophyte in the postcolonial era) are behind the support offered to the criminal state Abyssinia (that colonial English and French scholars explained to the idiotic and ignorant Amhara rulers why it should be renamed as ‘Ethiopia’ in order to contribute to the performance of 14 genocides against the subjugated Kushitic and Nilo-Saharan nations).

2. England and France (plus the US) are behind the destructive work perpetrated since 1991 against the Somali Nation that does not suit the colonial plans for Eastern Africa.

3. Last but not least, England and France (plus the US) are behind the Abyssinian invasion of part of the Somali territory (in December 2006) and behind the withdrawal of the defeated Abyssinian army.

How could China outmaneuver this complot?

Rejecting the false lenses made available by Western mass media of global disinformation is a first critical step to take. China must offer itself an accurate, holistic, balanced and fair perception of the developments throughout the African continent.

Otherwise, every evaluation will hinge on false data and prefabricated images that the perfidious, criminal powers of the Colonial West have done their ingenious best to overwhelmingly diffuse and successfully ensure that their potential challenges (China, India, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Italy, the Islamic World, African Liberation movements and fronts) never get the entire picture correctly.

China and Somalia in 1900 – Equally Targeted by Perfidious, Colonial England

Demonizing rivals and targets has always been a favorable method of the colonial powers; before 100 years, in the then targeted Somalia (1899 – 1905), Mohamed Abdullah Hassan had become just the “mad mullah“; he was not “mad” and his identity of mullah represents only a minor aspect of his great personality of intellectual, mystic, Islamic theoretician, social transformer and political leader and liberator.

Chinese can understand very well why the great visionary of the Somali Nation Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, honorably called As Sayid by all the Somalis, became a “mad mullah” for the criminal colonial gangsters of England.

Because he opposed the use of khat chewing which was greatly promoted and diffused by the English in order to engulf the local populations to social decay, political decadence, religious digression, and national decomposition.

China was equally targeted by the monstrous, inhuman and criminal gangsters, the English and the French, at those days. To colonize the Chinese, the perfidious colonial powers devised several methods one of which was the diffusion, throughout China, of opium produced in occupied India. China was constrained to defend its national integrity in successive Opium wars (1839 – 42, 1856 – 60); the evil English practice triggered the overwhelming reaction of the Chinese people as evidenced in events such as the Taiping Revolution (1850 – 64) and the Boxer Revolution (1899 – 1901).

To help Somali readership be better acquainted with the English Anti-Chinese hysteria and felony, I merely state here that the aforementioned glorious event is only conventionally called “Boxer Revolution.” In fact, the Boxers were called by themselves after the noble association that they had established, namely “Boxer Revolution” (Yihe tuan). Boxers is a pejorative term that could not have been devised but by a monstrous and criminal elite of gangsters like that of England.

Mohamed Abdullah Hassan: “Mad Mullah” or the Somali Boxer?

For both, Chinese and Somalis, to learn better the common identity of their righteous cause, I can merely say that Mohamed Abdullah Hassan (the ‘mad mullah‘ of the English colonial gangsters) was a …. Somali Boxer.

And the splendid ideals, the humanist goals, the peaceful mind, and the noble vision of the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in China were absolutely identical with those of the Saalihiya Order which was diffused among the Somalis by Mohamed Abdullah Hassan.

Mohamed Abdullah Hassan was criminally labeled “mad” by the English because he did not accept that evil and hypocritical “missionaries”, under the pretext of “help” offered to Somali orphans at Daymoole, should be allowed to attempt to diffuse – in a most immoral, shameful and camouflaged way – their Christian faith.

In the same way, the Boxers’ rightful denunciation of the disastrous work made in China by Western missionaries was labeled by the English as ‘Anti-Christian’.

For the viciously Anti-Christian, Freemasonic regime of England, which caused the greatest possible damages to Catholic Christianity (notably through their Anglican heresy), it is just ludicrous to introduce pejorative terms for other nations, parties and persons who happened to have attempted what the English did try for themselves in the first place, namely to stay apart of foreign control, foreign faith, and external influence.

This is the natural evilness of the English historiographers, intellectuals, diplomats and journalists:

If the “mad” mullah had accepted the duplicitous, concealed and criminal effort of the “missionaries” to Christianize Somalia, he would not be ….. “mad.”

Today, this “logic” threatens Somalia, China, and the entire world. It is the same inhuman attitude displayed before 100 years in both, China and Somalia; to speak frankly, it is the paranoia of the rapist who tries to appear as possibly innocent and credibly righteous.

What about today’s English regime of Inhuman Freemasonry?

Will they accept the Somali sheikhs Hassan Dahir Aweys, Hassan Turki, and Mukhtar Robow to …. leave Somalia for a while, move to England, visit the poor, unemployed and needy English, and proselytize them to Islam “that would solve all their problems”?

Just like the “missionaries” at Daymoole, Somalia, who made the local orphans say in 1897 that “they belonged to the clan of the (Christian) Fathers”, today’s impoverished English may wish to belong to the Nation of the Muslims. What about a scenario like this?

The use of the pejorative adjectives was never a matter of sparing concern among the English and the French colonials and within the circle of the world mass media that they have been customarily bribed and unreservedly corrupted.

It is certainly more convenient for them now to avoid the term “mad” and put all the stakes on adjectives and nouns like the following: “hard line”, “fanatic”, “radical”, “extremist” and “terrorist.”

China Cannot Afford Anymore the Fallacious Western Interpretations of Events

Simply, this situation cannot be afforded anymore by China. Because all the Somali “hard liners”, “fanatics”, “radicals”, “extremists” and “terrorists”, namely the sheikhs Hassan Dahir Aweys, Hassan Turki, and Mukhtar Robow, are today’s Somalia’s Righteous Harmony Society Movement.

Today’s Somalia’s Boxers Movement provides for peace, concord, serenity, national integrity, cultural authenticity, resolute commitment to Somalia’s re-edification and rehabilitation. To the full consternation of the English, French, and American colonials.

To focus on some isolated cases of literal implementation of Sharia Law in Kismayu and elsewhere is certainly purposeless.

These people suffered tremendously at the times of the Abyssinian occupation for which the evil colonial regimes of London and Washington are fully responsible.

These people saw the criminal gangster Jendayi Frazer shamelessly consider the Ogaden 2007 Genocide as an internal affair of the monstrous racist regime of Abysssinia; you cannot expect them to react like Confucius or some Greek Stoic philosophers. They view the excesses of their jurisdiction as the much needed underscoring of their opposition to the evil deeds of the Anti-Somali colonials; this is a sentimental stance, not a political approach. It will not continue for long after the so loathed AMISOM soldiers go, and the perspective of free constitutional elections comes closer.

China has many reasons – beyond a definite historical solidarity – to stretch a hand to the Somali Opposition, establish a contact with them, and thus acquire a firm basis in Eastern Africa. This I will extensively analyze in a forthcoming article.

Note: China Boxer Rebellion Mocking Card. Scarce Litho-postcard from the time of the Boxer Upraise in China, 1900. Mocking postcard depicting western soldiers, quarrelling. A Chinese smiling. Used as postcard in 1900. Faults at upper margin. Scarce. From: http://collect.at/wordpress/?p=1509

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The recent riots (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7935470.stm) in the Kenyan capital only highlight the impossibility of the artificial colonial state to continue existing.

Of course, had Somalia been a Christian state, Kenya would have never been created.

The colonial state of Kenya represents only the anti-Islamic need of criminal, heinous, racist and perfidious England to divide the Muslims of the Eastern Africa coast, and to segregate them in various fictional realms like Kenya and Tanzania whereby the Eastern African Muslims would miraculously be transformed into “minorities“.

In fact, Kenya cannot and will not exist as a unitary state in the same way Abyssinia, the world’s most criminal state, is doomed to collapse and get decomposed into many independent, national states.

The aforementioned does not necessarily imply that various Eastern African nations could not have formed diverse confederations whereby many different nations and peoples would coexist in peace and harmony; this could have been the case, had the various indigenous nations agreed in terms of parity, equity, and justice. However, this did not happen.

In the case of the infamous colonial fossil ‘Abyssinia’ (fallaciously re-baptized “Ethiopia”), there was a series of military invasions that always ended up in national and/or spiritual genocides (for the subdued Oromos, Afars, Sidamas, Ogadenis, Shekachos, Kaffas, Kambaatas, Hadiyas, Gedeos, Anuak, Nuer, Agaw, Shinasha, Berta and Gumuz).

In the case of the colonial territories of Kenya and Tanzania, the colonizers were Europeans (Portuguese, English and Germans); the colonial agreements between the English racist administration and selected tribal leaders, who – corrupt, bribed and besotted – accepted to play the shameful role of the local tyrant who is at the same time the shameful puppet of the colonial masters, helped establish tyrannical regimes that constitute a real hell for the outright majority of the subjugated nations.

By calling the subjugated nations of the Luos, Somalis, and Oromos of Kenya merely “local populations”, by minimizing the importance and the dramatic nature of the events that take place in Eastern Africa, and by shifting the focus on secluded spots – called “exotic resorts” -, the Western mass media perpetrate a heinous act and a voluntary genocide against the subjugated nations of Kenya who struggle for national independence, cultural integrity, sociopolitical freedom, and economic self-determination.

At the same time, the Western mass media bear witness to the Anti-Christian character of their endeavours, as they resonate lies, criminal falsehood, and deceit – only to serve the purposes of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that truly controls the Western establishments.

Only to be proven mendacious by the following reports of the leading humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) that I republish here integrally.

There is only one sentence all the people of the world have to know about Kenya:

The will of the outright majority of the subjugated nations that have been entrapped in the Prison “Kenya” passionately desire to see the Kenyan state as soon as possible broken down to many pieces so that every indigenous nation be able to form their own nationhood. Democracy, freedom, and development will only then become feasible.

Kenya: Killing of Activists Needs Independent Inquiry

Lethal Force Against Students Protesting the Killing Underscores Need for Police Reform
March 6

“When police enter a university campus with guns blazing, the need for urgent police reform and accountability is obvious”.

Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch

(New York) – The Kenyan government should immediately establish an independent investigation into the killings on March 5, 2009, of two prominent Kenyan human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The police’s use of unnecessary lethal force against students protesting the killings, resulting in one student’s death, also highlights the need for the government to carry out promptly United Nations recommendations on police reform, Human Rights Watch said.

On the evening of March 5 near the University of Nairobi, unidentified gunmen blocked the car of Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic and shot them dead. The Oscar Foundation has frequently and publicly criticized the police for their participation in extrajudicial killings and other serious abuses, most recently before parliament in February 2009.

“The murder of two activists long critical of police abuses demands an inquiry that is not under the control of the police,” said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “An independent inquiry is the only way to reach the truth and ensure justice for this horrible crime.”

Following the killings, several hundred University of Nairobi students held a demonstration protesting the killings that evening. Demonstrators told Human Rights Watch that they believed the government was responsible for the attack. Students took the bullet-riddled car and the body of Kingara onto campus, refusing to surrender his body to police. A standoff ensued between a large contingent of police who demanded that the body be handed over and the angry, but largely peaceful, demonstrators.

After negotiations broke down, Human Rights Watch witnessed scores of police officers storming the campus using tear gas and firing live ammunition. Students retaliated by throwing stones at the police. As the police pursued students carrying Kingara’s body across the campus, gunfire became more and more frequent.

Human Rights Watch observed some officers firing into the air, but one student was shot dead by the police. The police confirmed the student’s death in a statement today concluding that the use of lethal force was “unprofessional and uncalled for,” and noting that three officers who used live ammunition at the protest are “under investigation.”

In policing demonstrations, the Kenyan police should abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Human Rights Watch said. The principles call upon law enforcement officials to apply nonviolent means before resorting to the use of force, to use force only in proportion to the seriousness of the offense, and to use lethal force only when strictly unavoidable to protect life.

Human Rights Watch called on the Kenyan government to implement immediately the recommendations for police reform proposed by Kenyan Justice Philip Nyamu Waki, head of an independent commission that investigated post-election violence in 2008, and those by Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings.

Those recommendations include a public acknowledgement by President Mwai Kibaki of the problem of extrajudicial killings, the need for sweeping reform of the police, the setting-up of an independent police oversight board, the replacement of both the police commissioner and the attorney general, and the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute those responsible for post-election violence, including victims of police lethal force.

“When police enter a university campus with guns blazing, the need for urgent police reform and accountability is obvious,” said Gagnon. “Kenyans need a police force that protects their rights, not one that abuses them.”

Background

In 2007 the Oscar Foundation published a report on extrajudicial killings by the Kenyan police, “License to kill: Extrajudicial execution and police brutality in Kenya.” The Oscar Foundation activists had also testified to Parliament in early 2009 on extrajudicial killings.

The killings of Kingara and Oulu came on a day of heightened tensions over the February 2009 report of UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings Philip Alston into extra-judicial killings in Kenya. Alston’s report concluded that, “the Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and they kill often and with impunity.”

Weeks before, Alston had met with Kingara and Oulu, among others, to collect evidence of police killings of alleged members of the Mungiki sect, a religious group that has turned into a criminal organization. Members and sympathizers of the Mungiki had held demonstrations across Nairobi and the town of Naivasha earlier on in the day when Kingara and Oulu were killed.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga responded to the killings of Kingara and Oulu with a statement today saying that the police are suspects in these killings and asserting the need for an independent agency to carry out an investigation.

Kenya: End Police Use of Excessive Force

Lift Ban on Public Rallies, Media Broadcasts
January 12, 2008

The Kenyan government should urgently and publicly order the police to stop using excessive, lethal force against public rallies, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged political leaders on all sides to call on supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

Opposition leaders have called for rallies next week in defiance of the government’s broad ban on public gatherings, prompting concerns that new clashes could result in further deaths and injuries. Human Rights Watch is also concerned by ongoing violence in the Rift Valley, where hundreds of people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced.

“Kenyan security forces have a duty to rein in criminal violence and should protect people, but they shouldn’t turn their weapons on peaceful protestors,” said Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The government should make it very clear that police will be held to account for using lethal force against people for simply expressing political views.”

Since the disputed December 27, 2007 presidential elections, Kenyan police in several cities have used live ammunition to disperse protesters and disperse looters, killing and wounding dozens. Some observers and even police have described the police response as an unofficial “shoot to kill” policy. For example, Human Rights Watch received credible reports that in Kisumu dozens of people were shot dead by police while demonstrating against the election result announced on December 31.

Even people who did not attend rallies have been affected. Human Rights Watch spoke to eyewitnesses in Nairobi who saw unarmed individuals hit by police gunfire on the fringes of protests in the Kibera and Mathare slums. One woman was hit by stray bullets that penetrated the wall of her home. Another unarmed man was shot in the leg. A boy watching a protest from the door of his house was shot in the chest. Kenyan human rights organizations reported deaths and injuries involving police in the cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Eldoret.

A source within the police, who was unwilling to be identified, told Human Rights Watch that “many of us are unhappy with what we are being asked to do. This ’shoot to kill’ policy is illegal, and it is not right. We have brothers and sisters, sons and daughters out there.”

In policing demonstrations, the Kenyan police should abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Human Rights Watch said. The principles call upon law enforcement officials to apply nonviolent means before resorting to the use of force only in proportion to the seriousness of the offense, and to use lethal force only when strictly unavoidable to protect life.

Kenyan and international law prohibits a general ban on demonstrations. Under Kenyan law, those wishing to demonstrate must notify the police and the police can reject the request on the grounds of public order, but no law permits the authorities to impose a blanket ban on public assembly. Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Kenya ratified in 1976, a state may only impose restrictions on the right to peaceful assembly that are strictly necessary to maintain public order.

“The government should defuse tension by immediately lifting the ban on public assembly and allowing the planned demonstrations to go ahead,” said Gagnon. “The right to peaceful assembly is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.”

The government has also banned live political broadcasting. Human Rights Watch again urged the Kenyan authorities to immediately lift unnecessary restrictions on media freedom.

Human Rights Watch also called on the government to immediately investigate the deaths that have already occurred during protests and in the Rift Valley. Prosecutions should be carried out where there is evidence of wrongdoing and the victims should be provided an adequate remedy, including compensation.

Background

Kenyans voted peacefully and in record numbers in parliamentary and presidential elections on December 27. In the parliamentary elections, 99 of the 210 seats were won by the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Vice-President Moody Awori and 14 of President Mwai Kibaki’s top ministers lost their seats.

The presidential election pitted Kibaki against the ODM’s Raila Odinga, and the presidential vote count appeared to be tampered with. The chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya said that he did “not know whether Mr. Kibaki won the elections.” The European Union Electoral Mission also expressed grave doubts about the legitimacy of the presidential results.

Talks between the opposition and the Kibaki government have not yet occurred and the opposition is planning for further mass action across the country on January 16, 2008. Further violence is expected as the government has indicated it will attempt to prevent the demonstrations from occurring.

Violence has spread throughout the Rift Valley and the west of the country as angry citizens have burnt and looted factories, shops and homes and chased away those perceived to be supporters of Kibaki (mostly, but not exclusively, members of his Kikuyu tribe). Kikuyu homes in the Rift Valley have been selectively burned and Kikuyu residents killed. Thirty people were burned to death in a church near Eldoret. According to media reports, the mortuary in Eldoret contains 290 bodies killed as a result of the violence, and Kisumu has 91. Nationwide, government figures put the death toll at 486 but independent estimates range as high as 600.

Further readings: — http://oscarfound.org/

Note: A customary scenery in the streets of Kenya that does not usually find its way to the leading circulation newspapers in Europe, England and America, probably because Kenyan slums are not considered as ….. Kenya by the colonial establishmnets. From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/17/2141084.htm

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