Word: kikuyus
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...commission looking into the vote recently determined that Kenya would never know if Odinga or Kibaki truly won. In his writings, Corsi has sought to link the Luos - the tribe of Odinga, as well as Obama's ancestors - with Muslims and to pit both of them against Kikuyus, the tribe of Kibaki...
...opacity, vote-rigging and tribal politics. There has been widespread violence in the aftermath of Kenya's Dec. 27 poll, with the country split along tribal lines. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times recently reported that members of Obama's Luo ethnic group are supporting him, while rival Kikuyus are vociferously backing Clinton. "People do stand back and are a bit agog about the competitiveness and openness of American politics," says Ross Herbert, a research fellow at the South African Institute for International Affairs. "In most of Africa people are chosen for party leadership behind closed doors...
...violence, initially directed mostly at Kikuyus, followed the December 27 re-election of Mwai Kibaki, also a Kikuyu, in what even international observers agreed was a seriously flawed poll. Within the last week, Kikuyu have been striking back at Luos, Luhyas, Kalenjin and other supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga. The opposition initially characterized the violence as a spontaneous upsurge of anger, but fliers scattered around Witeithie - and the findings of a Human Rights Watch investigation - indicate that activists on both sides of the political divide have fanned the flames of ethnic resentment and perhaps even planned the violence...
...speech in the run-up to the vote. "He's the main inciter," said a man named Benjamin, who refused to give his last name for fear of punishment. "He said that if we are not going to win as ODM, we will not accept to stay with the Kikuyus. They will have...
...Back in Witeithie, some Luos are still packing up with less than 24 hours before the deadline set by the fliers. Others were still debating whether to leave. One woman, Eunice Owour, said her husband was recovering in the hospital from machete wounds suffered in an attack by Kikuyus. She did not want...