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...million of his supporters to gather in Uhuru Park in central Nairobi on Jan. 3 to inaugurate him the "people's President." The Kibaki government promptly announced a ban on the rally and, on Jan. 2, accused Odinga's party of "well-organized acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing." Odinga, for his part, sounds eager for confrontation. Asked if he should encourage his supporters to cease protests, Odinga told the bbc: "I refuse to be asked to give the Kenyan people an anesthetic so that they can be raped...
...turned on your TV today and saw the sardine-packed trains of Kosovo's refugees and you did not know the time frame, you could easily assume these were pictures of the horrific removal of Jews to the death camps during World War II. Ethnic cleansing is a euphemism for genocide or methodical murder. Don't be fooled: the motive in Kosovo is religious hatred. The ethnic Albanians are Muslims, and the murdering Serbs are Christians. How can religious people throughout the world remain silent, knowing such an outrage is being committed? Muslims, Jews and Christians, stand...
...emerging power of Iraq's Kurdish minority, located primarily in northern Iraq. Concerned that Kurds might take control of the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Turkey inserted itself into Iraq's domestic political problems by dubiously claiming stewardship of Kirkuk's minority Turkoman population (with whom ethnic Turks share a distant Central Asian past and little else.) More recently, Turkey has demanded that Iraq's Kurds rid northern Iraq of the PKK, a job that the government-sanctioned Kurdish peshmerga militias are unable to do. The peshmerga are currently overstretched in Baghdad and Mosul trying to keep Arab insurgents...
...Christian land," Swami Laxmananand Saraswati, head of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council), one of India's biggest Hindu nationalist groups, told Indian reporters. "We are opposed to that and that is the source of all disputes and fights." Other low-caste groups and so-called "tribals" - ethnic minorities who stand outside the caste system but have historically been poor and neglected - who benefit from affirmative action programs that reserve for them government jobs and school places, worry that minority Christians may one day receive affirmative action places themselves - diluting their chances of moving up India's social ladder...
...Nepal's scars run much deeper than the wounds inflicted by the ten-year civil war in which both sides were guilty of forced recruitment, extortion and extrajudicial killings. Crippling rural poverty and decades of ethnic disenfranchisement are now also coming to a head: criminal elements and vigilante cadres of the Maoists run rampant in parts of the Nepali countryside, while the lowland region of the Tarai - whose ethnically Indian inhabitants comprise 40% of Nepal's population but remain politically marginalized - has been gripped for months by strikes and political violence...