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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A delegation sent by the U.N.'s top human rights official began a mission Wednesday to look into reports of brutality and serious abuses in the weeks of deadly violence since the country's disputed presidential election.
More than 1,000 people have died since the Dec. 27 election, many at the hands of thugs armed with machetes or bows with poisoned arrows. The election, which foreign and local observers say was rigged, returned President Mwai Kibaki to power for a second five-year term after opposition leader Raila Odinga's lead evaporated overnight.
U.N. associate spokesman Farhan Haq, at U.N. headquarters in New York, confirmed that the fact-finding mission had arrived Wednesday.
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