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GILGIL, Kenya (AP) - Hundreds attended the burial Thursday of a black man shot by one of Kenya's wealthiest landowners, a killing that has revived resentment against the descendants of white colonists.
One government official promised to deport "white settlers and investors." Another threatened retaliation against Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley if he was released from custody in the case, the second time in little more than a year that he fatally shot a black Kenyan on his property.
Cholmondeley, the grandson of one of the country's first European settlers, told police he shot Robert Wambugu in self-defense after finding him poaching an animal on his ranch. Last year, he was charged with murder in the shooting a Massai game warden investigating reports of illegal wildlife trading. The charge was dropped for lack of evidence.
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