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Kenyan Killings 'Planned'

Flyers, arms distribution point to orchestrated violence

By Lucas Laursen, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 21, 2008 5:38 AM CST

(Newser) – As the death toll in Kenya's ongoing ethnic violence continued to mount yesterday, evidence indicates that some of the horrific bloodshed was carefully planned, the New York Times reports. Flyers warned of ethnic killings—now responsible for at least 650 deaths in the past month—... Read full story »

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