Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:05:20 -0500

FEATURE - PART I: The U.S Contribution to the Kenyan crisis

DEAR READERS,

EDWARD KINDLY CLUED US INTO THIS IMPRESSIVE SERIES BY "B REAL." THANK YOU EDWARD! WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT EVERYONE READ THIS (ESPECIALLY PART II).

- Jaluo Press

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PART I
Coup in Kenya - Part I
Will Ugandans be firing on protestors in Kenya this week?
January 15, 2008
by b real


As the Human Rights Watch statement cited earlier makes clear, "Kenyan and international law prohibits a general ban on demonstrations" and recommends that "[t]he government ... defuse tension by immediately lifting the ban on public assembly ... allowing the planned demonstrations to go ahead"

If Kibaki is indeed intent on using repression to protect his power -- and every indication is that this is the case given the extra-judicial executions of civilian protestors by his state security appartus and, as Kiai and CSIS's Joel Barkan stated at the Wilson Center panel, that it is their impression that Kibaki cynically sacrificed his own Kikuyu people in the western regions by his actions -- any attempts to mobilize mass demonstrations will be met with mass murder.

Given the path he has taken, Kibaki leaves himself few alternative options. Right now he is betting that he can dissolve his opposition through tactics of divide-and-rule and the use of extreme violence to hurry and reach that point where the people decide they cannot suffer any more, and still maintain the support of his western backers.

FOR FULL ARTICLE, SEE http://www.moonofalabama.org/2008/01/coup-in-kenya-.html