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Kenya Unrest Not Rwanda-Scale

Ethnic violence is serious, but not organized genocide of 1994

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 3, 2008 11:29 AM CST

(Newser) – Post-election violence in Kenya has taken on a nasty ethnic edge, as tribes across the country, particularly the Luo of opposition leader Raila Odinga, take their political frustrations out on sort-of President Mwai Kibaki’s powerful Kikuyu. But this isn’t quite Rwanda, the Christian ... Read full story »

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