Kenya Machete Massacre Leaves 29 Dead

Daily Nation:

At least 29 people have been killed in Monday overnight clashes between Kirinyaga residents in central Kenya and suspected Mungiki members.

The sect members struck two villages on the border between Kirinyaga and Nyeri and killed 29 people in retaliation after a week in which more than ten of their members were killed in Kirinyaga area.

Read the whole story: Daily Nation

Comments

[courtb]

08:05 AM on 04/22/2009

Another reminder that there is still much work to be done in Africa...

[mick7191]

06:34 AM on 04/22/2009

Great photograph.

[TheBlackCat]

07:34 PM on 04/21/2009

This world certainly has no shortage of endless cycles of vengeance.

[davidwayneosedach]

07:08 PM on 04/21/2009

This is happening in Kenya? How sad.

[davidhilton1]

05:14 PM on 04/21/2009

gawd...we really r animals arnt we?

[24kgold]

08:22 AM on 04/22/2009

speak for yourself! lol

[Jazzman323]

04:22 PM on 04/21/2009

The UN needs to give a strongly worded condemnation right away.

[rkimball]

04:17 PM on 04/21/2009

the un commission on racism chose to slam israel & the usa at the expense of ethnic cleansing around the globe. here's another example of race issues that have nothing to do with the un shaking down the usa for more money.

[KitMikayi]

06:15 AM on 04/22/2009

It's not really a race issue. Just a quasi-religious gang/cult that uses violence and murder to extort money and terrorize the populace.

[mommadona]

04:13 PM on 04/21/2009

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[brendanm]

03:55 PM on 04/21/2009

It will be about five minutes before President Obama gets blamed for this. In fact, I guarantee that he already has been blamed for this on some right-wing blogs, as he has been blamed for sectarian violence in Kenya in the past.

Sigh.

[TJCole]

03:16 PM on 04/21/2009

So this is where we are going to try pirates....?

Maybe we had better think this through a bit more...

[PlaceboStudman]

12:24 PM on 04/21/2009

Where are all the gun nuts who keep saying that people aren't being killed enmasse with knives and machetes??

*crickets chirping*

[Durango]

11:01 AM on 04/21/2009

Prior to this I have read stories about the justice system in Kenya and much of the third World and it's inadequacy.

it would appear that when the state cannot provide a system for determining justice people will take that power into their own hands.

Yet another warning to Bush/Cheney and the authoritarians who want to do away with the American justice system..

if you claim anyone is above the law the law doesn't work. And you may be held accountable. One way or another.