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Secrets of the Waki list
Prominent politicians are named in a secret list in a sealed envelope to be presented to former UN secretary General Kofi Annan on Friday.
Posted Thursday, October 16 2008 at 19:18
Communal violence
Some Central province MPs are accused of holding several planning meetings to recruit fighters, to coordinate communal violence and to organise funding.
The report said some church leaders used the pulpit to convey messages amounting to hate speech against non-Kikuyu communities in Central province.
According to the report, some of the violence witnessed during post-election violence was spontaneous. Violence was in part a spontaneous reaction to the perceived rigging of elections, it said.
“In areas like the Rift Valley and the Coast, it targeted members of the Kikuyu and Kisii communities perceived to be associated with the PNU party and with President Kibaki considered to be the beneficiaries of the “robbed” election, it said.
But in Nyanza and Western, violence was mostly directed towards Government facilities and gradually took the form of looting and destruction.
More than 350,000 people fled from their homes in the violence that followed President Kibaki being declared the winner of the December 27 General Election, as the Opposition protested.
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