Rwanda: "The two ethnic groups speak the same language and follow the same traditions, but have a long history of acrimony, which grew after the arrival of colonists from Europe.... a Rwandan human-rights activist who is half-Hutu and half-Tutsi"
Kenya: "historically liked to boast that it had avoided the sort of ethnic war that gripped its neighbors.... these tribes have lived side by side for generations"
EXCUSE ME?
Once again I am left to wonder WHOM fostered DIVISIONS amongst people leading to their SLAUGHTER and MASSACRES!!!!!!
Why am I finding SECTARIAN and ETHNIC SLAUGHTERS to be MORE than what we are told, readers?
And CUI BONO?
Isn't DIVIDE and CONQUER a RULE for CONTROLLING PEOPLE and thus RESOURCES? (Read this and this first, to understand the bulls*** lies and deceptions the Zionist s***-shovelers are slinging at you when it comes to Africa)
And JUST WHO would be running weapons into the region?
"Some US officials fear the cargo aboard the MV Faina, which was seized by pirates Thursday, could end up in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia.... But US officials, arms analysts, and maritime officials say the more likely original destination was southern Sudan, where the former rebel group Sudan
"Vadim Alperin was once quoted to be a "Mossad brother" running a number of clandestine front companies including one Kenyan Meat export company enjoying "good trade" with middle eastern countries covertly used for gathering intelligence from countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia"
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"Kenyans seek own path to reconciliation; Villagers hold healing sessions" by Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times | January 20, 2009
RUMURUTI, Kenya - In a sun-drenched valley of central Kenya, a few dozen villagers gather each Saturday to sit under the trees and do the painstaking work of reconciliation that their government leaders seem happy to avoid.
These traumatized victims of Kenya's postelection clashes meet to talk, pray, sing, and - they hope - heal. More than half a dozen tribes are represented, including ones that attacked one another in the weeks after the disputed December 2007 presidential voting ignited long-simmering ethnic tensions. More than 1,000 Kenyans died in the clashes.
Makes you wonder WHO fomented them, doesn't it?
At most sessions, group members segregate themselves by tribe. But singing, dancing, and a touch of pragmatism have helped break the ice. Paskwaloena Wanjiru, 70, was leery at first of joining the group. Her son and grandson were killed by a mob from a rival tribe, and she didn't think she could bring herself to greet members of that tribe.
But she was also struggling with her own shame: Two other sons took part in killing and house-burning that targeted another local tribe. Eventually, she said, she became comfortable with joining the reconciliation group because, "We are all here for the right reasons: to forgive and to be forgiven."
Gathering under a village's biggest tree to sort out conflict is an ancient African tradition, one that has even been used to promote healing in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. But such scenes have been surprisingly rare in Kenya, which historically liked to boast that it had avoided the sort of ethnic war that gripped its neighbors.
I think Americans could LEARN MUCH from those "primitive" Africans!!!!
Rather than confront the root causes of the violence, many people in Kenya now seem willing to paper over their differences and pretend nothing happened.
Sort of like the FALSE-FLAG INSIDE JOB of 9/11 here in AmeriKa; as a society, we simply refuse to come to grips with 9/11 Truth.
In November, legislation was approved to create a commission for tackling the nation's underlying tribal tensions, but commission members have yet to be named and work has not begun. Many officials refuse even to acknowledge the need for reconciliation.
Although the violence began Dec. 27, 2007, as a political power struggle, it quickly evolved into disputes over land and natural resources, with neighbors attacking neighbors. A power-sharing agreement between incumbent Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga quelled the violence, but since then only a few perpetrators have been punished. Promised $140 compensation payments for victims have been distributed sporadically at best. Most displaced families say they are too afraid to return home.
"You can't just tell people to go home," said human rights activist Maximilla Winfred Okello, who started the grass-roots reconciliation meetings in the Rift Valley town of Rumuruti during the fall. "It won't work if people are still afraid of their neighbors."
She said that unless Kenyans are encouraged to express their anger and learn to trust one another again, the nation is destined to repeat the violence. On the one-year anniversary of Kenya's disputed election, Okello and her group marked the occasion with a performance of traditional peace songs, one from each tribe.
Luhyas dressed in grass skirts danced in a conga line. Hip-swinging Kikuyu women, in bright-colored wraps, sang of reconciliation. Kalenjin girls yelped a haunting duet while Turkana mothers, bedecked in multicolored beads, shook metal medallions sewn onto their dresses like tambourines.
It SOUNDS like a LOT of FUN!!!!!!!
Although these tribes have lived side by side for generations, most said they have rarely participated in such exchanges. Several were so inspired watching the other tribes perform that they leaped up to join in. Okello, a high-school teacher with peace-building training, got the idea to launch the group after working door-to-door after the riots to encourage parents to bring children back to school.
Peter Lolino, 28, a flower farm worker who has been attending the sessions since the fall, said the group helped him deal with the anger he felt after he was struck in the face with an arrow.
"I realized the best thing for me is just to forgive," Lolino said. "Even if the government gave us something, that's not going to matter if we haven't forgiven."Yeah, forgive -- but NEVER FORGET!!!!!!
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Of course, ONE MAN will SOLVE IT ALL for the Kenyans!
"Obama's message was eagerly watched in Kenya, his father's homeland, where rural villagers celebrated by sacrificing goats and drinking beer labeled with his name as they watched the inauguration on outdoor screens. At the Washington Plaza hotel, Masai dancers feted Obama's grandmother, who had traveled from Kenya. Dancers from the Kikuyu and Luo tribes, which in Kenya have been violent political rivals, celebrated together. "
Another group of people destined to be disappointed:
Obama selected to aid in African holocaust?
