Word: tribalism
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...predispose people to violence, but the postelection skirmishes in Kenya were not a natural consequence of poverty. Kenyans have been poor but peaceful for decades. Rather, the protests are the language of the weak against a regime that rigged itself into power. The violence is motivated by century-old tribal wounds that had been allowed to fester. Second, tribalism is not the brainchild of Kenya's first President; it started with the imperial British driving wedges between people so they could colonize them with ease. It was then perfected by myopic postcolonial leaders who were keener on self-aggrandizement than...
...predispose people to violence, but the postelection skirmishes in Kenya were not a natural consequence of poverty. Kenyans have been poor but peaceful for decades. Rather, the protests are the language of the weak against a regime that rigged itself into power. The violence is motivated by century-old tribal wounds that had been allowed to fester. Second, tribalism is not the brainchild of Kenya's first President; it started with the imperial British driving wedges between people so they could colonize them with ease. It was then perfected by myopic postcolonial leaders who were keener on self-aggrandizement than...
...Rwanda - and none constitutes more than about 20% of the population. And the country's political leaders are currently talking, under the mediating hand of former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, with a view to heading off the slide into catastrophe. Still, there are clear signs that the tribal conflict is now taking an increasingly organized form, which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer characterized as "clear ethnic cleansing." As in the conflicts in what was once Yugoslavia, the purpose of the increasingly organized mobs killing and threatening members of other tribes was to force all members...
...Pakistan's north-west Bannu district. Then, as Brown and Musharraf discussed how the president was going to crack down on extremism in Pakistan, the gunman - who, according to Musharraf, only ran into the school to escape from police - freed the children and turned themselves in to the tribal elders who were acting as negotiators. Brown might have seen the peaceful outcome as either an omen or perhaps real-world proof that Musharraf is, in the words of the prime minister, "a key ally in combating terrorism and extremism...
...Khan, it was just another example of how extremism has grown in Pakistan since Musharraf came to power via military coup in 1999. "Last year was the bloodiest year ever in Pakistan," he said. Even the tribal areas, which Bannu is near, are "threatening to stand up against the military," Khan said, as "not religious, but political Talibanization" spreads across the country. Speaking over the constant clicking of cameras, Khan chastised the U.S. and Britain for only paying lip service to democracy in Pakistan and painted a picture of a country on the brink of implosion, caught in a vicious...