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Slaughter in Kenya
Submitted by jcosgriff on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 11:56am.
Sixty-four human-rights groups who met under the umbrella of the National Civil Society Congress have asked that the United Nations send in a peacekeeping force and that a transitional Kenyan government be formed.
Story summary:
Violence in Kenya has reached the point that the rest of the world cannot content itself with simply waiting for events to play out. If "ethnic cleansing" - to use the words of U.S. Undersecretary of State Jendayi Frazer - is indeed occurring, then the U.N. Security Council must be prepared to insert troops to stop it. Sixty-four human-rights groups who met under the umbrella of the National Civil Society Congress have asked that the United Nations send in a peacekeeping force and that a transitional Kenyan government be formed.
Slaughter in Kenya
Philadelphia Inquirer
1-31-2008
Violence in Kenya has reached the point that the rest of the world cannot content itself with simply waiting for events to play out.
If "ethnic cleansing" - to use the words of U.S. Undersecretary of State Jendayi Frazer - is indeed occurring, then the U.N. Security Council must be prepared to insert troops to stop it.
Neither Kibaki nor opposition leader Raila Odinga, who claims he won the presidential election, want to see such intervention. Both men have been meeting with former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to negotiate an end to their dispute.
But time is running out as bodies continue to pile up.
Thousands of lives were lost in Rwanda in 1994 as Hutus attempted to wipe Tutsis out of existence.
Thousands died between 1992-95 in Yugoslavia as Bosnian Muslims and Serbians attempted to erase each other from the earth.
Thousands have been killed in Sudan since 1983 as Arab Muslims continue to prey on Christians and animists in the south.