Monday, 17 September 2012

Tribalism in Kenya: more than 100 people killed in less than two months




Tribalism is a way of thinking or behaving in which people are more loyal to their tribe than to their friends, their country, or any other social group. In August at least 52 people were killed aggressively with knifes, or burnt. A new attack has killed 38 people in Kenya in the South East of the village Tana River in Nairobi because of the tribalism which has already massacre people in this last August. “16 men, 5 women, 8 children and 9 policemen” have been killed and 8 wounded people by members of a rival community. Actually, the tension is still hot but the confrontation has stopped. But the Tana River is known as a theatre between rival communities with two sides: Orma who are the nomadic farmers, and Pokomo who represents the sedentary farmers. A set of violence’s particularly murderous has given a result of more than 100 people killed since August. According to some policemen, the attack act was to set on fire and to burn house, people did not know where to run away. Bodies abandoned which could not b evacuated due to the fact of the hot conflict fullness.

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