tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post8275710750974754401..comments2024-03-28T17:52:49.942-07:00Comments on You Missed This: Arrest Warrant: Bashir's Cheap Kenyan TricksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-9220801388308644562011-01-26T10:00:29.018-08:002011-01-26T10:00:29.018-08:00Good article. Thank you.
http://akkordiki.blog.c...Good article. Thank you. <br />http://akkordiki.blog.com/2011/01/06/6/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-6305282725019585182011-01-01T00:50:51.838-08:002011-01-01T00:50:51.838-08:00Beautiful post, great ))Beautiful post, great ))Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-7834967556294544322010-11-26T01:44:33.282-08:002010-11-26T01:44:33.282-08:00Funny blogFunny blogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-85064591681549906272009-03-07T01:42:00.000-08:002009-03-07T01:42:00.000-08:00Anonymous said... Dr Rumourmonger Mwarang'ethe,Now...Anonymous said... <BR/>Dr Rumourmonger Mwarang'ethe,<BR/><BR/>Now that you have givenn us your pesa nane interpretation of the Statute governing the ICC tell us whether Prof Magician Alston did what he was sent to do - TO INVESTIGATE. <BR/><BR/>Our response:<BR/><BR/>There are some words you missed. We wrote: "However, we can state for the benefit of those who are wise..."<BR/><BR/>You missed the words that, our argument is meant FOR THOSE WHO ARE WISE.Mwarang'ethehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17751879277752081774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-20563325456306643852009-03-06T18:21:00.000-08:002009-03-06T18:21:00.000-08:00Kenyan MP’s Version of the National AnthemPolitici...Kenyan MP’s Version of the National Anthem<BR/><BR/>Politicians of all persuasions<BR/>Strip this our land and nation.<BR/>Fortunes motivate us and keep us.<BR/>May we steal with impunity<BR/>Dodge taxes in unity;<BR/>Plenty be sourced within our dockets. <BR/><BR/>Let all politicians arise<BR/>With scams both wily and foolproof.<BR/>Eating be our earnest endeavour,<BR/>And our cake-stand of Kenya,<BR/>Heritage of plunder,<BR/>May we fight forever to perpetuate. <BR/><BR/>Let parties with one accord,<BR/>In common greed united,<BR/>Bankrupt our nation together.<BR/>May the agony of Kenya,<BR/>The fruit of our behaviour,<BR/>Remain hidden from our 2012 votersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-66575478592506002992009-03-06T17:25:00.000-08:002009-03-06T17:25:00.000-08:00kumekucha website is mainained in Kenya??..NSIS wa...kumekucha website is mainained in Kenya??..NSIS watching this website??...that's why comment on military self censored...?<BR/><BR/>violence begets violence<BR/>peace begets peaceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-61980006862358049892009-03-06T17:21:00.000-08:002009-03-06T17:21:00.000-08:00no, oscar came from a well off family...maybe that...no, oscar came from a well off family...maybe that is why he had a mercedes....see below...this is what karl marx called class suicide...?? <BR/><BR/>http://nairobichronicle.wordpress.com/<BR/><BR/><BR/>After graduating with a law degree, Oscar joined the family business that was involved manufacturing, meat and fish processing, real estate, import/export and sale of building materials within Kenya.<BR/><BR/>He planned to marry, have children, then live happily and quietly ever after. However, fate had other plans in store for him.<BR/><BR/>In 1996, Oscar experienced the injustices perpetuated by the state through a policy of destroying local industries for the benefit of multinationals. The government issued a statement meant to ensure that fish exports from Kenya were stopped. Oscar wrote in his website that the decision was, “aimed at punishing people from Nyanza province who were perceived by the KANU government to be anti-establishment. The policy was (Siasa mbaya maisha mbaya) meaning, “bad politics equals bad life.”<BR/><BR/>The government suspended fish exports to the European market, forcing Oscar to close down a multi million dollar factory in Kisumu that was processing and exporting fish. This first hand experience of high handed impunity by the state was an eye opener and Oscar realized how justice is hard to get especially for the vulnerable poor.<BR/><BR/>one day state house road ought to be renamed Oscar Kamau Kingera road<BR/>for his good works...<BR/><BR/>I don't believe he was a front for mungikiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-42602113093090609742009-03-06T17:11:00.001-08:002009-03-06T17:11:00.001-08:00Wsup ChrisYou havent posted anything are you Ok ?...Wsup Chris<BR/>You havent posted anything are you Ok ? ama you are a.k.a OSCAR the fallen hero? please say somethingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-63318291492696214462009-03-06T17:11:00.000-08:002009-03-06T17:11:00.000-08:00anon 2:41, so you agree that kibaki having violent...anon 2:41, so you agree that kibaki having violently stolen the election should be punished? you panuas never cease to amazeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-77879078493988756162009-03-06T15:49:00.000-08:002009-03-06T15:49:00.000-08:00Only in Kenya "ordinary" human rights activists ge...Only in Kenya "ordinary" human rights activists get to own and drive mercedes Benz cars. We are living in unusual times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-16619445034010853642009-03-06T15:38:00.000-08:002009-03-06T15:38:00.000-08:00In order to unravel the mystery of the deaths of K...In order to unravel the mystery of the deaths of King'ara and Oulu the investigators must try to answer the following questions:<BR/><BR/>1. Who are the Oscar Foundation?<BR/><BR/>2. What was the nexus between the Foundation and one of the wings of Mungiki?<BR/><BR/>3. What was the role of succession politics and or rivaly between the two factions in Mungiki in these murders.<BR/><BR/>4. Who were their international and local funders and were their international funder the same as those who funded ODM during the Post-Election Violence period?<BR/><BR/>5. Who had seconded Oulu to the Foundation and what was his brief?<BR/><BR/>6. Was there an unholy trinity developing among the Mungiki, the Oscar Foundation and ODM?<BR/><BR/>Unless these questions are answered we will be chasing our tails. It appears ownership of the Mungiki has become a high stakes game and will become more so as we near 2012.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-15006180949486796112009-03-06T15:13:00.000-08:002009-03-06T15:13:00.000-08:00Why are the professional political mourners more c...Why are the professional political mourners more concerned with the deaths of King'ara and Oulu rather than the deaths of the two Mungiki who were lynched in Thika the day before?<BR/><BR/>Also, who is mourning the thousands of Kikuyu victims of Mungiki beheadings and Luo forcible circumcisions? Why doesn't the PM call for international investigations into these barbaric beheadings and circumcisions by Mungiki, or aren't the victims Kenyan enough?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-56167840745472276772009-03-06T15:02:00.000-08:002009-03-06T15:02:00.000-08:00Dr Rumourmonger Mwarang'ethe,Now that you have giv...Dr Rumourmonger Mwarang'ethe,<BR/><BR/>Now that you have givenn us your pesa nane interpretation of the Statute governing the ICC tell us whether Prof Magician Alston did what he was sent to do - TO INVESTIGATE. Wouldn't you agree that it would take more than ten days and the magical powers of Alston to conduct a serious investigation across five provinces (Central, Nairobi, RV, Western and Nyanza) and to interviews the numerous witnesses he claims to have done? If that is what they call a UN investigation, I would rather have the Kenya police investigate; at least they pretend to investigate.<BR/><BR/>The UN should send a more serious investigator if they want to be part of our problem solving instead of coming to sow confusion and discord.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-113871140122209272009-03-06T14:41:00.000-08:002009-03-06T14:41:00.000-08:00Chris:A UoN student robber was gunned down. He and...Chris:<BR/><BR/>A UoN student robber was gunned down. He and others had stolen the dead bodies of the human rights activists and hidden then in the Dorms. They had resisted by force the recovery of the bodies by police. Robbery by violence is a crime that attract the death penalty under our Penal Code.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-47860315893500780732009-03-06T14:15:00.000-08:002009-03-06T14:15:00.000-08:00We wish to add that, the state policy has not only...We wish to add that, the state policy has not only been about outright killing, as state above, but, also making many of these young men disappear not to be seen. And, such policies/acts constitute a crime against humanity which Kibaki et al may have to account soon.Mwarang'ethehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17751879277752081774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-81378513722075772612009-03-06T14:09:00.000-08:002009-03-06T14:09:00.000-08:00There has been a lot of noise since Prof. Alston g...There has been a lot of noise since Prof. Alston gave his interim report. Unfortunately, most of the noises we have heard, and especially from the so - called Government headed by Kibaki shows pure ignorance of what is afoot. We can only sympathise.<BR/><BR/>Lets illustrate.<BR/><BR/>On the question of Crimes within the Jurisdiction of the ICC, it is stated that:<BR/><BR/>"The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole."<BR/><BR/>What is the import of the above?<BR/><BR/>When the UN in its wisdom or lack of it, sent Prof. Alston to Kenya to investigate extra - judicial killings by the security agencies, it evidences international community's concern over these crimes.<BR/><BR/>It gets better. Under the Crimes against humanity, the ICC statute states that crime against humanity means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:<BR/><BR/>(i) Enforced disappearance of persons. This means:<BR/><BR/>"...the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time." <BR/> <BR/>It is also stated in the ICC statute that: "Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack. <BR/><BR/>It is not a secret that the official policy has been to shoot and kill so called members of Mungiki by the Police as stated clearly by former internal security minister Michuki. <BR/><BR/>It is impossible to write fully in a blog about such a weighty matter as this. <BR/><BR/>However, we can state for the benefit of those who are wise that Kibaki, Ali, Michuki et al are in grave danger of being accused and even arrested internationally of having committed crimes against humanity. <BR/><BR/>Having pursued a state policy of enforced disappearance of persons, i.e. so called Mungiki members, who are civilians, Kibaki is walking a dangerous path. <BR/><BR/>It is no wonder, Pro. Alston asked him to break his silence on the matter. It was for a good reason. Will he understand?Mwarang'ethehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17751879277752081774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-67572637414070482212009-03-06T13:03:00.000-08:002009-03-06T13:03:00.000-08:00Chris?? Kumekucha we the bloggers can see you are ...Chris?? Kumekucha we the bloggers can see you are hiding and editing some of what bloggers post here to express their anger and frustrations<BR/><BR/>So why the hell did you remove the post by a blogger saying the Army should take over to end the impunity and innocent killings of kenyans??<BR/><BR/>What did the bloggers say wrong??<BR/><BR/>be knowing most kenyans feel that way that the only way forward is the army should take over and the coalition has failed kenyans<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>KUMEKUCHA aka CHRIS WORKS FOR KIBAKI PERIOD!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-27652776989851197972009-03-06T13:00:00.000-08:002009-03-06T13:00:00.000-08:00Rule of law reels in KenyaBy Adam MynottBBC World ...Rule of law reels in Kenya<BR/><BR/>By Adam Mynott<BR/>BBC World Affairs correspondent<BR/><BR/>Kenyan students look at the car in which Oscar Kamau Kingara and his colleague were shot dead, 6 March<BR/>The two men were shot outside the University of Nairobi<BR/><BR/>Killings do not come more cold-blooded and calculated.<BR/><BR/>Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu were shot at close range while their car was standing in traffic during Nairobi's rush hour last night.<BR/><BR/>The men were killed in State House Road just yards from the heavily guarded residence of Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki. Two men riddled the vehicle with automatic gunfire and then walked away.<BR/><BR/>Hours earlier, during his weekly media briefing, Dr Alfred Mutua, the Kenyan government spokesman, accused the human rights organisation headed by Mr Kingara of being a front and a fund-raising body for a banned criminal sect called the Mungiki.<BR/><BR/>The Oscar Foundation, named after its now-dead founder, has been at the forefront of protests about alleged extra-judicial killings by police.<BR/><BR/>Oscar Kamau Kingara (image: Oscar Foundation website)<BR/>Mr Kingara had given the UN evidence of alleged police abuses<BR/><BR/>Kenya's security forces have spent the past two years trying to crack down very heavily on Mungiki followers after the sect carried out a series of brutal killings.<BR/><BR/>Earlier in the day there had been a big protest in Nairobi about police behaviour and claims that hundreds of young Kenyans had been killed by police and other security forces.<BR/><BR/>The protest followed the publication earlier in the week of a UN report by Professor Philip Alston into police operations in Kenya. It was, by UN standards, highly critical, accusing the police of being a law unto themselves and of killing with impunity.<BR/><BR/>Professor Alston called for the sacking of Kenya's police chief, Hussein Ali, and the resignation of the Attorney-General, Amos Wako.<BR/><BR/>No surprise registered when the Kenyan government rejected the report (which they had commissioned) and accused Professor Alston of exceeding his brief, which was to draw up an independent assessment of alleged illegal killings by police.<BR/><BR/>Murderous reputation<BR/><BR/>The Mungiki is a murderous organisation that traces its origins to the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule in the 1950s and '60s.<BR/><BR/>A body is removed after fighting between police and a Mungiki mob in Nairobi, June 2007<BR/>Nairobi has seen lethal clashes between police and Mungiki mobs<BR/><BR/>It gained prominence in the 1980s when it coalesced around attempts to protect land belonging to Kikuyu farmers in the Kenyan highlands north of Nairobi.<BR/><BR/>It has since spread its tentacles into many other areas of Kenyan life and it turned criminal.<BR/><BR/>It has raised a lot of money by extorting money from Kenya's ubiquitous matatu buses.<BR/><BR/>Virtually every matatu operating in Central Province in Kenya has had to pay a "levy" of a few hundred Kenyan shillings (less than $10) a day to operate.<BR/><BR/>Mungiki has also recruited among the country's large population of disaffected Kikuyu youth. It has been used by some Kenyan politicians to intimidate the electorate and frighten off political opposition.<BR/><BR/>Mungiki mobs surfaced during Kenya's troubled election in December 2007. More than 1,500 people were killed in an orgy of violence which followed the disputed result.<BR/><BR/>Warring groups divided down ethnic lines, and while I was covering the violence I saw gangs wearing tell-tale Mungiki emblems (red scarves and bits of scarlet cloth tied around forearms) on the rampage.<BR/><BR/>Police behaviour, Mungiki violence and now the murder of two human rights activists call into question the rule of law in Kenya. Kenyan society is trying to heal itself after the inter-tribal violence.<BR/><BR/>It has a coalition government intended to draw together both political and ethnic differences. But the new joint administration is riven by divisions and gives the appearance of being deeply corrupt.<BR/><BR/>The murder, rape and rioting which threatened to plunge Kenya into civil war a year ago have ended, but Kenya still faces a crisis of huge proportions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-13068641741107394452009-03-06T12:59:00.000-08:002009-03-06T12:59:00.000-08:00Two Kenyan rights activists shot dead• Pair were i...Two Kenyan rights activists shot dead<BR/><BR/>• Pair were investigating murders by police<BR/>• UN demands immediate inquiry<BR/><BR/> * guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 March 2009 12.13 GMT<BR/> <BR/><BR/>Paul Oulu killed in Nairobi<BR/><BR/>Locals look at the car in which Paul Oulu and Oscar Kingara were shot dead in Nairobi. Photograph: Karel Prinsloo/AP<BR/><BR/>Two Kenyan human rights activists who provided evidence to a senior UN investigator over execution-style murders by police were assassinated on a busy Nairobi street yesterday evening.<BR/><BR/>Oscar Kamau Kingara, the director of the Oscar Foundation, and its programme coordinator, John Paul Oulo, were shot at close range in their car by gunmen less than a mile from the presidential residence.<BR/><BR/>Only a few hours earlier the government had publicly accused their organisation, which runs free legal aid clinics for the poor, of being a front for a criminal gang.<BR/><BR/>A coalition of civil society organisations released a statement blaming police for the murders.<BR/><BR/>"These were very decent men who had done more work than anybody in examining police killings," said Cyprian Nyamwamu, the executive director of the National Convention Executive Council, a non-governmental organisation advocating social and economic reform. "I have no doubt that is why they were killed."<BR/><BR/>The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and the UN demanded an immediate investigation into the deaths.<BR/><BR/>Police have denied any involvement and attributed yesterday's killings to "rivalry or thuggery".<BR/><BR/>The Oscar Foundation made its name investigating police abuses. Since 2007 it has reported 6,452 "enforced disappearances" by police and 1,721 extrajudicial killings.<BR/><BR/>Many of those killed were alleged members of the feared Mungiki gang, which runs Mafia-like networks but was also used by members of President Mwai Kibaki's party to launch retaliatory attacks during last year's election violence.<BR/><BR/>Kingara, a 37-year-old lawyer who founded the organisation in 1998, recently presented his detailed findings on police killings to two parliamentary committees.<BR/><BR/>He and Oulo, a former student leader, met and briefed Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, when he was conducting a 10-day investigation in security force abuses in Kenya last month.<BR/><BR/>Alston's scathing report, which criticised Kibaki and called for the sacking of the police chief and the attorney general, caused uproar in Kenya and deeply angered the authorities.<BR/><BR/>Alfred Mutua, a Government spokesman, said in his weekly press conference yesterday that the UN report had emboldened Mungiki, which held protests against the extrajudicial killings just hours before the murders.<BR/><BR/>Mutua accused the Oscar Foundation of raising funds for Mungiki and of planning the protests.<BR/><BR/>Eric Kiraithe, a police spokesman, had warned that the security forces were "definitely going to get" those behind the demonstrations.<BR/><BR/>Kingara admitted helping relatives of dead Mungiki members to seek justice but strongly denied any formal relations with the gang. In a radio interview shortly before his death Kingara said he would sue Mutua over the allegations.<BR/><BR/>"This was a completely false accusation by the police," said Mwalimu Mati, a prominent civil society activist who had worked with Kingara on a project examining illegal land grabs.<BR/><BR/>Kingara and Oulo had been driving along State House Road to a meeting at the KNCHR at 6pm yesterday when their path was blocked by at least two cars. Two gunmen emerged from a minivan and shot through the driver and passenger windows.<BR/><BR/>The assailants kept firing into the air to keep any bystanders away until they were sure both men were dead, before escaping in the van.<BR/><BR/>Police said that students from the nearby University of Nairobi moved Oulo's body into a hostel and one student was shot dead when officers tried to retrieve it.<BR/><BR/>Three officers who fired live rounds inside the university had been arrested, police said.<BR/><BR/>In a statement from New York, Alston expressed shock at the news and called for a foreign-led investigation into the murders, suggesting that Scotland Yard or the South African police be involved.<BR/><BR/>"It is extremely troubling when those working to defend human rights in Kenya can be assassinated in broad daylight in the middle of Nairobi," Alston said.<BR/>Backstory: police brutalityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-74601929873731898212009-03-06T12:56:00.000-08:002009-03-06T12:56:00.000-08:00Shooting of activists in Nairobi spurs outcryBy Al...Shooting of activists in Nairobi spurs outcry<BR/>By Alan Cowell<BR/>Published: March 6, 2009<BR/> <BR/><BR/>PARIS: The United States and a senior United Nations official have called for an independent investigation into the slaying of two prominent Kenyan human rights activists, shot and killed at close range Thursday while their car was blocked in heavy traffic in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.<BR/><BR/>"The United States is gravely concerned and urges the Kenyan government to launch an immediate, comprehensive and transparent investigation into this crime," the U.S. ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger, said in a statement Friday. It urged the authorities to "prevent Kenya from becoming a place where human rights defenders can be murdered with impunity."<BR/><BR/>The slain men, Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu, had been driving to a meeting of human rights activists when unidentified assailants opened fire. There were no reports of arrests.<BR/><BR/>Last month, the two activists met with Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, and provided him with "testimony on the issue of police killings in Nairobi and Central Province," Alston said in a statement issued in New York on Thursday.<BR/><BR/>"It is extremely troubling when those working to defend human rights in Kenya can be assassinated in broad daylight in the middle of Nairobi," Alston said. "This constitutes a major threat to the rule of law, regardless of who might be responsible for the killings."<BR/>Today in Africa & Middle East<BR/>Zimbabwe prime minister hurt in car accident, wife's state unknown<BR/>UN signals concern on Sudan's move against aid groups<BR/>Shooting of activists in Nairobi spurs outcry<BR/><BR/>He said there was "an especially strong onus on the Kenya government to arrange for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding" the killings.<BR/><BR/>Alston visited Kenya last month and said in a previous statement that killings by police had been "systematic, widespread and carefully planned."<BR/><BR/>In 2007, the organization that Kingara founded and led, the Oscar Foundation, published a report called: "Licensed to Kill: Extrajudicial Execution and Police Brutality in Kenya." Oulu was the Oscar Foundation's communications and advocacy director.<BR/><BR/>Shortly before the two men died, Alston said, a government official issued a statement linking the Oscar Foundation to the illegal Mungiki sect, and a police officer threatened to take action against those responsible for demonstrations by supporters of the sect.<BR/><BR/>The Mungiki is a cultlike organization that runs extortion rings across Kenya, and is known for grisly crimes, including beheading its victims.It has claimed to be the successor to the Mau Mau movement that fought British colonial rule, and it seeks recruits among young people in poverty-stricken slums. The Oscar Foundation had supported peaceful protests against what it said was the extrajudicial killing of 1,721 young people and the disappearance of 6,542 others accused of supporting or belonging to the Mungiki, Reuters said.Charles Owino, a police spokesman, said it would be "too cheap" for the police to be involved in killing the activists. "We have no reason whatsoever to kill people, even if they are against us. We consider it either rivalry or thuggery, and we are committed to bringing the perpetrators to book," he said, according to Reuters.The deaths followed violent episodes like the fatal shooting last year of a former police driver who told human rights investigators that he had seen over 50 executions of witnesses by police officers. Last January, a Kenyan journalist who said he had been threatened by officers after writing about police malpractice was found decapitated in a forest, The Associated Press reported.The killings Thursday incited demonstrations by students, who hurled bottles and stones at the police. A student was shot and killed, according to news reports. In his statement, Ranneberger, the U.S. ambassador, urged the authorities to investigate "allegations that police personnel used live ammunition and deadly force against protesters."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-33802711105303018682009-03-06T12:47:00.000-08:002009-03-06T12:47:00.000-08:00The prime minister has issued a statement. The pr...The prime minister has issued a statement. The president is guilty of the killings so he has nothing more to add on what his personal spokesman has already said.<BR/><BR/>Kalonzo Musyoka is, as usual, very afraid to utter even one word. What a coward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-67965996563180574102009-03-06T12:32:00.000-08:002009-03-06T12:32:00.000-08:00Even the staunchest Kibaki supporter must now agre...Even the staunchest Kibaki supporter must now agree his time is up.<BR/><BR/>Chris, <BR/><BR/>Where in the hell are you? I’m tired of refreshing the page looking for updates. Please post news on the current affairs ASAP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-38854147393234775752009-03-06T11:37:00.000-08:002009-03-06T11:37:00.000-08:00Was Morgan Tsvangarai an assasination target? His ...Was Morgan Tsvangarai an assasination target? His wife was killed in a car accident today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-78089309049309258762009-03-06T11:17:00.000-08:002009-03-06T11:17:00.000-08:00KIBAKI GOVERNMENT KILLER OF INNOCENT KENYANS .... ...KIBAKI GOVERNMENT KILLER OF INNOCENT KENYANS .... KENYANS SHOULD RISE UP IN ARMS TO REMOVE THIS FORMER NARC ROGUE GOVERNMENT WITH THE THIEVING MURDERER KIBAKI TIME IS NOW NOT TOMORROW NOW... MUNGIKI AND ALL KENYANS MUST RISE UP... BEFORE MORE INNOCENT BLOOD IS SPILLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>Video Confession from Executioner Cop<BR/><BR/>http://marsgroupkenya.org/pages/stories/UN_Report/index.php<BR/><BR/>3/5/09 11:00 AMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12839785.post-50007756780545601162009-03-06T11:16:00.000-08:002009-03-06T11:16:00.000-08:00THE ASSASSINATION OF TWO LEADING CIVIL RIGHTS DEFE...THE ASSASSINATION OF TWO LEADING CIVIL RIGHTS DEFENDERS STATEMENT RELEASED BY THE KENYA CIVIL SOCIETY 5TH MARCH 2009<BR/>PRIME MINISTER RT HON RAILA ODINGA’S STATEMENT ON THE MURDER OF OSCAR FOUNDATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: »<BR/>UN expert on extrajudicial executions calls upon Kenyan Government to establish an independent investigation into the assassination today of two prominent Kenyan human rights defenders<BR/><BR/>Mar 6th, 2009 by Mars Group<BR/><BR/>PRESS RELEASE<BR/><BR/>NEW YORK, 5 March 2009, 6.30 pm:<BR/><BR/>The shocking assassination in Nairobi today of two prominent Kenyan human rights defenders must be independently investigated, according to the UN’s Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Professor Philip Alston.<BR/><BR/>At approximately 6.00 pm in Nairobi on 5 March, gunmen killed two members of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic, a human rights organisation providing free legal aid services to the poor. Those killed were the Founder and CEO of the Oscar Foundation, Mr Oscar Kamau Kingara, and the Communications and Advocacy Director, Mr John Paul Oulu. The two human rights defenders were on their way to a meeting with a senior human rights officer of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights when they were shot at point-blank range, sitting in their car in heavy traffic near Nairobi University.<BR/><BR/>Alston said that he had met with both men during his February 2009 UN fact-finding mission to Kenya and that they had provided him with testimony on the issue of police killings in Nairobi and Central Province.<BR/><BR/>“It is extremely troubling when those working to defend human rights in Kenya can be assassinated in broad daylight in the middle of Nairobi”, said Alston. “This constitutes a major threat to the rule of law, regardless of who might be responsible for the killings”, he added. Alston noted that “there is an especially strong onus on the Kenyan Government to arrange for an independent investigation into these killings given the circumstances surrounding them. Those circumstances include a statement attributed to a Government spokesman, Mr Alfred Mutua, publicly denouncing the Oscar Foundation for its links to the illegal Mungiki sect, and another statement attributed to Police Spokesman, Mr Eric Kiraithe, that a major security operation was ‘definitely going to get’ those responsible for recent demonstrations attributable to the Mungiki.”<BR/><BR/>In 2007, the Oscar Foundation had published a report titled “License to kill: Extrajudicial execution and police brutality in Kenya”, which documented killings by police in Kenya. The Oscar Foundation also testified before parliamentarians on this issue in February and March 2009.<BR/><BR/>Alston said that it was inevitable under the circumstances for suspicion to fall upon the police in relation to these killings. “It is imperative, if the Kenyan Police are to be exonerated, for an independent team to be called from somewhere like Scotland Yard or the South African Police to investigate”, he said. He noted that there is no existing independent unit capable of investigating possible police misconduct in Kenya. He<BR/>also stated that he had received reports that an eyewitness at the scene was also wounded, and may have been taken away by the police.<BR/><BR/>Background<BR/>The UN Special Rapporteur carried out a fact-finding mission at the invitation of the Government of Kenya from 16-25 February 2009. His preliminary statement found that killings by police were “systematic, widespread, and carefully planned”. The full statement is available at www.extrajudicialexecutions.org.<BR/><BR/>Professor Alston was appointed Special Rapporteur in 2004 and reports to the UN Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. He has had extensive experience in the human rights field. Further information about the mandate of the Special Rapporteur is available at: http://extrajudicialexecutions.org/about/mandate.html.<BR/><BR/>Related;<BR/><BR/>A video confession by a Kenyan Police Officer who witnessed extra-judicial killings of 58 suspects by his colleagues under orders from their superiors. The confession was taken by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights on June 25th 2008. The officer, Bernard Kiriinya was shot dead in Nairobi on October 16th 2008. He was 43 years old.He was killed when he was out to move his family.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com