Kenia: revueltas tras las sospechas de fraude en las elecciones

martes, enero 01, 2008

Y qué casualidad:  una iglesia quemada y 59 muertos. El clima de violencia recuerda mucho a Ruanda, porque la violencia es sobre todo racial:

A mob torched a church where hundreds had sought refuge Tuesday, and witnesses said dozens of people — including children — were burned alive or hacked to death with machetes in ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed election.

The killing of up to 50 ethnic Kikuyus in the Rift Valley city of Eldoret brought the death toll from four days of rioting to more than 275, raising fears of further unrest in what has been one of Africa's most stable democracies.

The latest violence recalled scenes from the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, when more than a half-million people were killed. The question facing Kenya is whether the politicians will lose control of the mobs, triggering a civil war.
Mientras, la UE pone en duda el escrutinio. Veremos en qué resulta todo esto.