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...Kenya continues to boil with unrest, students at Harvard have begun to change summer plans and to collect donations for humanitarian relief. For others, the violence has hit closer to home. Kenyan student Kipyegon A. Kitur ’09 remembers the first day of the new year. That day 50 people were burned alive in a church in Eldoret as they fleed from a mob incensed over the results of the election two days earlier. Kitur, who was spending winter break on campus, called his brother in another Kenyan town. “He said people were screaming...
...today. But, since the rigged December 27th presidential elections, violence has swept over Kenya from the port city of Mombasa to the slums of Nairobi. By comparison to some of its East African neighbors, Kenya has been an example of peaceful democracy. Nevertheless, Kenya’s current unrest is the legacy of its failure to address historical injustices and is a sad reminder of the virulent resentments that longstanding inequalities have inspired. Still, under the right leadership, Kenyans will stop taking justice into their own hands and turn to their leaders to resolve the electoral dispute. But for that...
...give suggestions for improving tourist facilities in Pakistan?" "How do you think I should answer this?" I asked the man, "Pakistan has so many troubles, it's not fair to complain about particular tourist facilities." He shook his head and agreed that there had been a lot of unrest. "It's only 10% or 20% of the people," he said. "The rest of us are very welcoming." I nodded in agreement?Pakistanis are indeed warm, hospitable and generous?and lamented that he had a tough job. "It's a struggle," he admitted...
What can be done to help stop the political unrest in Kenya? Erickson Young, TAMPA...
...they are even more concerned about another U.S. war in the Gulf - this time against Iran, to wipe out its nuclear program. That could bring a swift backlash, either through direct Iranian military retaliation against Washington's regional allies, or in the form of fomenting long-term political unrest and terrorism among Shi'ite minorities in those countries. Arabs were relieved when the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran said that the Islamic regime had shelved its nuclear weapons program in 2003. But a major aim of Bush's tour is to rally Gulf Arabs into an anti-Iran bloc...