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Annan calls for tolerance
AfricaNews, Netherlands
Posted on Monday 28 January 2008 - 10:17
Evans Wafula
The former United Nation Secretary General Kofi Annan has stepped
up efforts to bring the two political parties in the Kenyan
conflict to the negotiating table.
The chief mediator has embarked on the implementation of
structured talks that will bring to an end the post-conflict
violence that has so far left over 1000 people dead.
Soon after returning from a tour of the Rift Valley town of
Eldoret and Nakuru where more than 300,000 people have been
displaced, Annan warned that the two parties in the conflict must
take 'hard choices' to save the country that is already on the
brinks.
He has also called for speedy investigations in to the alleged
cases of human rights violations.
"What we have seen is a systematic abuse of human rights that call
for investigations and those found to have aided the abuse should
be held to account", said Annan.
Kenya continues systematic killings that has degenerated to ethnic
cleansing with Sunday and Saturday witnessing the worst incidents.
In Naivasha, 15 people belonging to the Luo community were burnt
to death in a house where they had gone to seek for shelter after
gangs of marauding youth believed to be from the ethnic Kikuyu
community torched the house.
In what appeared to a retaliatory attack, youth from the Luo
community have vowed to revenge the attck.
This wave of violence has seen the deployment of military
personnel to man parts of the city.
Nairobi is also on high alert after leaflets went round warning
residents of an imminent attack.
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