Mnhenwa Ndege
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- Dec 5, 2007
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A massive rally in protest of President Mwai Kibaki's re-election was planned for Friday, one day after the nation's attorney general called for a recount and an independent investigation into the country's disputed election.
An Odinga supporter displays a sign during a march in Kisumu, Kenya, Thursday.
1 of 4 more photos » "The level and nature of the violent protest has never before been witnessed in our country and is quickly degenerating into a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions," Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako said of the country's turmoil.
He called for a government of national unity and said a recount and investigation "will go a long way in assuaging the inflamed passions of the people."
Reports of violence, looting and fires were sporadic in Nairobi's sprawling slums, including Kibera, from which residents had left en masse to Uhuru Park.
Video from Nairobi's outskirts showed streets littered with broken glass, overturned Coca-Cola crates and, in some places, fires. One man carried a sign that read: "Shame on you Kibaki you raped our democracy."
Meanwhile, children's bodies piled up in a Nairobi morgue, churches burned and police on horseback chased pedestrians through the streets.
"What we have just seen defies description," opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement told journalists after visiting one Nairobi morgue Thursday. "We can only describe it as genocide on a grand scale."
Images provided to CNN by I-Reporter Duncan Musicha Waswa showed riot police on horseback chasing citizens on Nairobi's Bunyala Road. Those going about their daily business raised their hands to avoid the wrath of police, Waswa told CNN.
source:http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/03/kenya.violence/index.html
An Odinga supporter displays a sign during a march in Kisumu, Kenya, Thursday.
1 of 4 more photos » "The level and nature of the violent protest has never before been witnessed in our country and is quickly degenerating into a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions," Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako said of the country's turmoil.
He called for a government of national unity and said a recount and investigation "will go a long way in assuaging the inflamed passions of the people."
Reports of violence, looting and fires were sporadic in Nairobi's sprawling slums, including Kibera, from which residents had left en masse to Uhuru Park.
Video from Nairobi's outskirts showed streets littered with broken glass, overturned Coca-Cola crates and, in some places, fires. One man carried a sign that read: "Shame on you Kibaki you raped our democracy."
Meanwhile, children's bodies piled up in a Nairobi morgue, churches burned and police on horseback chased pedestrians through the streets.
"What we have just seen defies description," opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement told journalists after visiting one Nairobi morgue Thursday. "We can only describe it as genocide on a grand scale."
Images provided to CNN by I-Reporter Duncan Musicha Waswa showed riot police on horseback chasing citizens on Nairobi's Bunyala Road. Those going about their daily business raised their hands to avoid the wrath of police, Waswa told CNN.
source:http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/03/kenya.violence/index.html