Posted on 10/25/2008 9:35:09 AM PDT by MountainLoop
NAIROBI, Kenya — A government-sponsored commission in Kenya has accused a number of top-level officials of inciting and funding ethnic violence in the country that left thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced following disputed elections late last year.
The report, which was embargoed by a separate government commission, was leaked to FOXNews.com. It makes allegations against 219 persons, including many government ministers.
Their names are included in the "Schedule of Alleged Perpetrators," a 54-page appendix to the report of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, or KNCHR, on violence related to the country’s December 2007 elections.
Most of the accused are supporters of the Orange Democratic Movement, or ODM, whose leader, Raila Odinga, nonetheless has supported the establishment of a tribunal to put on trial those politicians responsible for inciting the post-election violence. Odinga, who is not accused, belongs to the Luo tribe.
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YES!
Someone posted this last night and it appears that they are planning something similar here.
http://truthfirstnow.blogspot.com/
You beat my post by a minute. Good job! So - is this the beginning of the Odinga-Obama connection???
Okay, no flames for posting this. I am still very skeptical, but I found this interesting.
from api:
Michelle Obama tapes Reveals: Raila Odinga, Kenya’s Prime Minister is in the Priority list of the First guests to the White House if Obama wins the US Presidency.
Posted by africanpress on October 25, 2008
The Michelle Obama tapes lasting for 54 minutes discusses many important issues. The tape will most probably be released to the American people and the world at large, before the US Presidential elections because many people are pushing for that to happen and API does not want to disappoint the majority in the name of democracy and being transparent. The tape is expected to be aired by a reputable US network who will determine the best time for the public to get the information and if it should be aired unedited or partly edited.
Although the contents in the tape is sensitive, API is of the opinion that the US people have a right to know their leaders and what to expect from them once they get to the highest office in the land. The tape, when made public, will reveal the immediate tasks and where the new administration will give priority. Africa, Iran and Venezuela will end up in the priority list of the “chosen” to be attended to and Kenya will play a very important role through Kenya’s Prime Minister Mr Raila Odinga who is said to be a distant cousin of Obama.
Kenya has very good trade relationship with Iran and Obama’s first priority is to have high level discussions in the Kenyan capital. The first meeting will be chaired by Raila Odinga. The US is said to be represented in such a meeting by the US Ambassador in Nairobi. Iran is one of those to attend the meeting, but as an observer so that Obama will not be accused by his opponents for dramatically changing US Foreign policy.
To work with the Kenyans, the Obama administration will have Colin Powell, the former US Secretary for State as Obama’s Special envoy to Africa and the Middle East.
The first meeting will take place in central Nairobi in the newly Libyan purchased Hotel, that has now changed the name from Kenya Regency Hotel to a new name proposed by the new owners., Libya.
The tape further reveals why the meeting should take place in the Libyan owned hotel. By doing it this way, the outside world will not view Raila’s engagement negatively as a move to connect Kenya, Iran and the US.
The Kenyans and the Libyans (Now US friends) will not be accused of initiating relationship between the US and Iran in any way.
API challenges Mrs Obama to personally deny the information if she believes that she has not been quoted by us in a correct manner.
The information has for sometime now caused headache within the intelligence circles fearing that if Obama really got the presidency, will totally change the US foreign policy by having US-Iran trade relationship.
The Secret Service may have to add a new item to their questionnaire for Presidential visitors: Are you Luo or Kikuyu?
Raila Odinga should be on the accused list!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVtlR6ce2s
He called for demonstrations that resulted in 1500 deaths (if that is even accurate), and untold injured and displaced.
Obama: “Prime Minister Odinga is just a guy in Africa.”
Machetes and burning people alive can kill that many.
Hope and Change!
A little late I would say. Maybe trying to maintain creds. Doubt if any time left to prevent communist takeover.
Skeptical that they waited to put Colin Powell in this until after he’d endorsed Obama.
And Obama gave Odinga a million dollars to help him get into power. Hmm, that might explain where a good deal of the money came from that was doled out to the rioters by the Orange Party officials.
And I suppose Odinga didn’t notice what all his supporters were doing? Certainly he doesn’t seem to have objected to the political mantra of this violent coup: “No Railla, no peace.”
I was thinking the number was understated... the news footage for those 4 months with 600,000 being displaces alone had me stunned. And the ‘protests’ went on until he successfully stole his power-sharing Prime Minster’s seat.
There are two weekends left before the election. When did that become “too late”? I don’t know if all the doom and gloom posts are good for conservative messageboards because a large percentage of posters believe it and are disheartened.
It’s not too late!!
Did you see how Odinga made his appearance at Parliament once he got that PM appointment? Kenya has their rock star, too.
Raila: I own a Hummer but do I say
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzDtI7cXOw0
43 million Kenya shillings. 1/2 a million US dollar$.
0bama basically bought it for him.
Post-election ethnic violence.
That will keep Faux News supplied with enough dead blondes and burning white Broncos that their evening broadcasts will be chock-full for months!
Now their only problem is how to mention OJ Simpson at the bottom of every hour...
BUMP and PING to Post #18 for WPtG... this is the MoU we were just talking about, blown up.
Thanks, nc!
WOW
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