Wednesday, 20 February 2008

• What Lies Beneath

  Things have not changed here. Everyone is hoping that the peace
  talks will succeed. Hoping and praying for a miracle. No one is sorry
  for what has taken place so far. The same people that have been chased
  from their own homes are not hesitant to chase others from their homes.

  
  

  If there is nothing that comes from the peace talks that satisfies
  everyone, soon, Kenya will definitely go through round two of all the
  violence.

  
  

  A news article that caught my attention:
  
  

  
  

  NAIROBI, Kenya: (Associated Press)
  Kenya's opposition on Wednesday threatened mass protests within a week
  if the government fails to start work on changing the constitution to
  pave the way for any type of power-sharing government.

  
  

  Parliament must convene within a week to
  enact constitutional changes that will be needed to restructure the
  government in a way that will divest some of the power from the
  presidency, said Anyang Nyongo, secretary-general of the opposition
  Orange Democratic Movement.

  "If that does not happen, ODM hereby gives notice that we call our supporters to mass action within one week," he said.

  Another
  senior party official, Najib Balala, said any such action would be
  peaceful. However, previous political protests have turned violent and
  deteriorated into ethnic clashes.

  Weeks of violence sparked by the flawed Dec. 27 vote have left more than 1,000 dead and forced some 600,000 to flee their homes.

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