Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:47:17 -0800 (PST)
   
  Naitwa Tirus Okolah Omolo mwanfunzi wa Green Acres High school Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, kwanza kabisa nina majonzi makubwa sana kuwapa wakenya poleni na na matatizo ya kisiasa,vilevile napenda kutuma salaam za rambirambi kwa wafiwa wote na jamaa/marafiki na ndugu zao.
  
  Jamani mweshimiwa Mwai Kibaki Hauoni kuwa watu wanakuwa wakimbizi nchini mwao na nchi jirani za Uganda na Tanzania.Swali ni kwamba hutaongoza wakina nani huku wananchi walio wengi hawakupendi na hutatumia jeshi la polisi mpaka lini kiwauwa Raia wasio na hatia MFANO M ZURI  ni ya kule Jijini Kisumu Kijana mdogo Ahmed Salimu alipopigwa Risasi 2 na polisi jamani hivi motto kama huyu wa miaka 15 ana uwezo wa kupiga kura???  Nakusii mweshimiwa mwai Kibaki iundwe kwa Serikali ya Mpito huku ukiwa nje ya kiti cha urais ili kunusuru hali ya kisiasa/kiuchumi na kijamii.
  
  Jumuiya ya Umoja wa nchi huru za Kiafrika A.U, Umoja wa mataifa  U.N,Jumuiya ya madola COMMONWEALTH na mataifa Makubwa,wakati uliopo sio wakati wa kubembelezana, kilichopo ni kutumia nguvu kama njia za KIDIPLOMASIA zimeshindikana kumwambia mweshimiwa mwai kibaki9 angatuke madarakani na kurudiwa kwa uchaguzi wa Urais au uhesabuji upya wa kura kwa kuanzia kwenye majimbo.Vinginevyo hakuna haja ya Kusema kuna demokrasia na hakuna haja ya kufanya uchaguzi kama wanaonekana kushindwa kwenye uchaguzi ndio wanapewa uongozi.

  Mabadiliko yasipofanyika KENYA basi kesho na Kesho kutwa viongozi wengine wan chi za kiafrika au pengine watangangania madaraka.
  
  Mwenyekiti wa Tume ya Uchaguzi Kenya hana huruma na sio mwajibikaji katika kazi yake, na kwanini ashinikizwe kutangaza.

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    Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:22:01 -0800 (PST)
   
Amazing grace:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7205762.stm

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jared wrote:

  Dear friends,

Something to share with you.
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Kind regards,
The issue before us not easy as it looks. In guise all of us are looking at the situation with our coloured glasses. Coloured by our perception of the other people or by our perceived injustice carried against us depending on our social or ethnic backgrounds. We are all waiting for external events or the other person to act in a certain way in order to release us from our anguish and anger. We have become emotional prisoners of one another,regardless of our
education or religion we secretly want blood and destruction. I met someone who seemingly can’t eat since this crises started, why? Because of the way they feel about the situation and “that tribe ” that has caused it What we have refused to take is personal responsibility. We must appreciate the fact that true healing starts first with us. Our release from anger is not with the other person, or a summon on the pulpit, it is with us. We must take responsibility of
our emotions and feelings towards the “other people”.

This is the only way we can build a civilized society. Without saying it people are looking for revenge and justice. It is said when you take the route of revenge, you then must dig two graves because you also become a victim. We must first find personal freedom by disempowering the “other person” to be the
source of our self esteem or happiness. You disempowerthe other person by first forgiving them in order to realize true peace to enable you to rationally
evaluate the cause of the current events and factually deal with it.

Dr Munroe in his book the “Burden of Freedom” notes that many third world nations have never known what real freedom is. We want freedom both social and
economic but we don’t want the responsibility that comes with it. For years we hated the Asians for their prosperity; we even beat them and destroyed their
property when we got a chance to. But we remained poor. However over the last 10 years, we have taken responsibility, we have developed our business skill.
We have now competed with them in the spare parts business; we have invaded the city shops with our exhibitions stands and killed the ” Dukawala”. The
crusade continues, we soon shall follow them into the industrial area and start manufacturing. We don’t hate or beat them; we must compete with them in a free
enterprise and beat them at their own game. In short we have taken responsibility and claimed our freedom from hate and economic need.

Forgiving the other person almost sounds cowardly. But it is the first step towards greatness, it is the path that made Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela great, yet in this perceived weakness they brought lasting freedom to their masses. Your character must be bigger than the issue before hand.You deal with the issue but preserve the core at any cost, you take responsibility.

What is a world without your opponent? We are all codependent on one another. In our different forms we constitute the beauty of Kenya . Imagine a world without the flair of the Luo, the biashara mind of a Kikuyu and the humour of a Akamba. It is this distinct different cultures that visitors admire about Kenya and want to come back again and again.

Last Saturday my wife and I went to salvage our business that we have build painfully over five years. A gang of youths were at the gate and ordered us to turn back or burn our car. Some of them were people we had directly helped. They were taking possession of every business premise on that building as their own. They have been made to believe that by freely taking, they will find personal freedom. We turned back and left them to occupy the building and loot the premises. Was I full of hate for them for destroying our investment of five years? Maybe for a moment, it was painful but I took control. I must not become their emotional prisoner through hate. Instead of anger I actually pitied them because they were living in a form of ignorance. I have found personal freedom that they apparently haven’t. I shall start again, I shall build another business. After all this is the spirit of enterprise. I shall find economic freedom through daily effort and the search for a better way.

They will never on the other hand find this freedom unless they first seek to understand or someone explains to them.

We look foolish in the eyes of the world as we torch our country in the name of anger. We entertain the west in their cozy living rooms as we chase our brothers with pangas and destroy property. We bring colour to their evenings as they enjoy the boredom that comes with tranquil and peace. After all, this better than watching wrestling. This is “Real TV “as Africans torch their country and mutilate one another. It is true what they have always believed; the African might actually never find civility.

I have thus made a choice not to be angry with the “other tribe”. I will endeavour to forgive where I have been harmed, I will search where I am unjust to the other person so that I can correct. But we must all rise above the hate regardless of the facts and search for the greater common good. If you find truth in this email, please pass it on to one more person.

Jameni for the so called peace to be in Kenya, many issues have to be addressed,it is not only the contested presidential elections results, it is much deeper than that.

Amani Kenya Justice first. That is the onsong slogan in most parts of Kenya as I mail you this article if I may call it so.
- Author unknown, sent by Lucy

    Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:40:48 +0300
  

UN HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF CONDEMNS VIOLENCE IN KENYA, CALLS FOR TRUTH AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Geneva, 21 January 2008– The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, today reiterated her deep concern about the continued violence and reports of grave human rights abuses in Kenya, following the December 27 elections. She strongly denounced the numerous inter-ethnic killings and conveyed her sympathy to the families of the victims and those who have been wounded and displaced in the past few weeks. She also condemned the use of live ammunition by Kenyan police in responding to protests, reportedly resulting in numerous deaths, including children.

The High Commissioner recalled that Kenya is party to a number of Human Rights instruments that provide for among others, the right to life, freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly. In reminding the Government to abide by its human rights obligations, she called for an impartial investigation into the serious allegations of breaches of those standards.

The killings have to be investigated expediously and impartially, and anyone found responsible for human rights abuses must be brought to justice, the High Commissioner said. There must not be, in any case, impunity for what has occurred in Kenya the past few weeks.

In expressing support for the efforts undertaken by the international community to restore peace, the High Commissioner called on Kenyan leaders to engage in open and constructive dialogue, including addressing the serious human rights violations that have occurred.

Any lasting peace in Kenya must be based on truth and accountability, the High Commissioner said.

On 31 December 2007, the High Commissioner issued a statement condemning the outbreak of violence.

- Sent by Dan

    Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:27:05 -0500
   
The opposition party is being portrayed by the international media as an ethnic cleanser!

How can an organisation with no armed forces be ethnically cleansing anything? With what is ODM cleansing the Kikuyu ?

I have family and friends in western Kenya where the GSU brutes are killing people including the raping of women as we speak while the international media is concentrating on ethnic cleansing somewhere else. The killings in Kisumu are  being carried out by  some foreign GSU chaps and there are no media to bear witness to the brutality. There is no police force to protect the wanainchi. That is an organized ethnic cleansing designed to have no witness!

MY QUESTION IS: WHAT KIND OF EQUIPMENTS ARE THE SUPPORTERS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY USING TO ETHNICALLY CLEANSE? WHY IS ODINGA BEING PORTRAYED AS BELONGING TO THE WORST ETHNIC CLEANSER? WHO IS THIS WORST ETHNIC CLEANSER? THE LUOS?

I HAD NO IDEA THAT THE ODM HAD  ARMED FORCES. CAN SOMEONE INFORM THE PUBLIC ABOUT THIS ETHNIC CLEANSING ASPECT OF THE ODM PARTY, PLEASE? CAN SOMEONE SHOW FOOTAGE OF THE ETHNIC CLEANSING BY ODM?

This is the link:      http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0114/p09s02-coop.html

 - Lucia

    Date: 21 Jan 2008 11:42:47 -0800
   

Kenyans hacked to death with machetes – Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080121/ap_on_re_af/kenya_election
EXCERPT:

The maimed man, Peter Kyalo, arrived later at Kenyatta Hospital. He said he was warned on Saturday night by Luo friends he might be targeted because he is a Kamba, the same tribe as the vice president, a former presidential candidate who joined Kibaki’s government this month.

In a separate incident, around 50 people attacked welder Dominic Owour, a 23-year-old Luo, and tried to cut off both his hands at the forearm, Owour said.

Both men said police watching the attacks did not intervene.

- Sent by Moses

    Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:39:52 -0800 (PST)
   
 ODM ……………………………………….Geoffrey ….
 
 
 ODM leader  Raila Odinga has stated that the party is ready for dialogue but with the right people who are peace-constructive and not hypocrites who can be compared to the likes of Judas Iscariot.
 
 
 Speaking at the Holy Trinity Church Kibera Parish, Raila condemned the religious leaders for  preaching  peace but falling short in addressing injustice which  he says has led to the current political stalemate that has claimed over 500 lives and left thousands displaced. 
 
 
 Adding that he has heard the call from Kenyans and they should remain assured that he will not let them down and will ensure that democracy prevails  because if he  fails now then Kenyan democracy will be dead forever. 
 
 
 And in an effort to restore calm in the area that has worst been hit by the post-elections violence he urged the local residents who had thronged the church compound not to treat their neighbors as enemies  due to their  ethnic background.
 
 
 Adding that they are all Kenyans who exercised their democratic right just like anyone and the ones responsible for the political injustice are just a few known individuals.
 
 
 Raila also condemned the police for using excess force in the area as he was handed bullet catriges that the residents had collected.
 
 
 END
 

    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:03:06 GMT
   
OPADO saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it.

** Message **
EU, IT’S GOOD YOU HAVE STARTED TO WAKE UP, FOR THE MUNGIKI REGIME HAS BEEN USING KENYAN AID FUNDS TO BUILD IRON SKETCHED HUTS TO COW KENYAN YOUTHS WITH CHEAP LABOUR IN THE SLUM.

MAJORITY OF KENYAN GRADUATES EARN AROUND 3 EURO AT THE INDUSTRIAL AREA. WITH THIS MONEY, HE HAS TO PAY THE MUNGIKI REGIME FOR ROOM, WATER, PARAFFIN, AND TOILET DAILY.

IT IS FOR THESE REASONS THAT YOU CAN SEE THE YOUNG BURNING THE SLUM. IT IS A WAY TO SAY THAT THEY HAVE BEEN EXPLOITED ENOUGH.

THE MUNGIKI YOUNG ARE MASTER WHEREVER THEY LIVE. THEY BUY LAND FROM OTHER TRIBES WITH NO SOURCE OF EARNINGS. AFTER THEY START TO EDUCATE YOU ON THE LANDLAW SOMETIMES THEY DENY THE TRUE OWNER ACCESS TO THEIR LAND AND THEY DO THAT IN ALL PARTS OF KENYA.  THEY TAKE KENYANS AS STUPID AND LAZY PEOPLE WITH  A LOT OF IDEAS WHICH WILL NEVER WORK BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO MONEY AND, THEREFORE, THEY ARE AS GOOD AS DEAD-opado

** Kenya protesters to mount boycott **
Kenya’s opposition vows to boycott government-linked firms as a final day of mass rallies claims at least five lives.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:44:47 -0800 (PST)
    
Dear fellow Kenyans,

  I saw the pictures and I was numbed. Now, if Kibakaji still believes that rungus and bullets will resolve the issue of stealing an election then he’s  grossly mistaken. A while ago, I said that the similarities between Kibakaji, Moi and Kenyatta is that they all perfected the art of government-sponsored domestic terrorism. Each having learnt from their predecessor.
 
  That explains why Kenyatta would never board a plane, detained, tortured and killed. Corrupt Moi detained, tortured and killed too. Let us not forget the so-called teetotaler’s penchant for sowing oats between the thighs of young girls and people’s wives. Then there is now the pumped-full-of-steroids Kibakaji.  A perfection of Kenyatta and Moi’s tutelage. This guy has outdone both Kenyatta and Moi in such a short time (one term!) that he takes the trophy.
 
  Our emperor has no clothes and instead of his mates covering him, they are telling him how impressive his manhood looks!
 
 
— otwomad wrote:
 
The blog below contains graphic pictures so beware. It is a matter of public
record and captures the reality we live in, those of us still in Kenya hii
yetu. Will we be able to hold together as a people? The relentless work of the
blogger is up to you to judge. It is a horrid journey just seeing now imagine
for a second being physically in the thick of the nightmare particluarly at the
recieving end.
 
- Otwoma

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