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Kenya Violence Augurs Ethnic Split

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:59:34 PM
By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY

Josphat Mwangi, 64, an ethnic Kikuyu who lived on his farm in western Kenya for more than 40 years, but now lives in a tent in a camp for the displaced, recounts his story at the camp inside the fairground in Eldoret, Kenya, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. In many regions of this once-stable African country, the violence following President Mwai Kibaki's re-election has brought a bloody end to decades of coexistence among Kenya's ethnic groups, transforming the face of villages, cities and towns where Kenyans lived together, however uneasily at times, since independence from Britain in 1963. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)ELDORET, Kenya (AP) - For nearly 40 years, Josphat Mwangi lived on his farm in western Kenya, a six-acre plot of earth with a sparkling river in the distance.

Now, he lives in a white tent on an old fairground, surrounded by thousands of others who fled an explosion of violence after Kenya's flawed presidential election on Dec. 27.

"I could never have imagined this," said Mwangi, 64, whose house was set ablaze the night the election results were announced. "Those people who burned my home, they were my neighbors. Families I helped have now turned against me."


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