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Original Post Date: 2008-02-05 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Bogonko Bosire
Nairobi – Thousands of villagers fled a police crackdown in western Kenya, police said Sunday, a day after dozens were killed in fresh violence that threatened hopes for an accord by political rivals to make efforts to end weeks of violence.
“They have fled to the mountains – both men, young women and children. Only very old women are remaining behind in the villages here,” a police commander told AFP after paramilitary police searched for stolen guns in Ainamoi area near the western town of Kericho.
“They only returned a gun and a magazine, but elders have assured us that they will ensure we get the remaining three guns in two days,” the commander added.
Thousands of villagers attacked a government office on Friday, killed a policeman and stole four guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, triggering a crackdown.
Police reported on Saturday at least 47 new deaths as more accusations flew between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, who claims he was robbed of the presidency in a disputed December 27 election.
The latest victims were killed with machetes and poisoned arrows in Nyanza province, many in Ainamoi, the home village of a slain opposition MP.
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan oversaw the signing on Friday of a joint document by Kibaki and Odinga representatives. The deal marked out a joint roadmap aiming to end, within two weeks, unrest that has claimed nearly 1,000 lives since the election.
Current UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the two sides to “look beyond the party lines” and warned Kenya’s image and its economy had already suffered major damage when he made a one day visit on Friday.
South African businessman Cyril Ramaphosa, who chairs the African National Congress’s Negotiating Commission, arrived to join Annan in the mediation mission.
The crisis has severely shaken the formerly stable east African nation, a refuge for many people displaced by neighbouring conflicts.
Under the peace plan, both sides would address the humanitarian crisis caused by the unrest, which has displaced up to 300 000 people.
But it was unclear how political issues would be addressed, saying only that “its resolution may require adjustments to the current constitutional, legal and institutional frameworks.”
The deal came only hours after Kibaki made an uncompromising speech in Ethiopia in which he insisted that opposition protests over the election results be taken to court. He accused the opposition of instigating the violence.
Odinga rejected the claims Saturday and said Kibaki was undermining the Annan-led talks.
“President Kibaki’s comments in Addis Ababa undermined the mediation talks,” he told a news conference in Nairobi, repeating that he believed that the courts were loyal to Kibaki.
He said his Orange Democratic Movement “cannot in any way be held responsible for what is happening in the country.”
The political unrest has stirred up latent ethnic clashes, economic and land disputes. The two sides have traded accusations of using gangs to provoke tensions.
Ethnic fighting between villagers armed with bows and arrows, spears and machetes has ballooned in western Kenya since the killing of local opposition MP David Kimutai Too in Eldoret on Thursday.
Odinga said the lawmaker’s murder, and that of opposition MP Melitus Mugabe Were on Tuesday in Nairobi, were “part of a plot” to reduce his party’s majority in parliament.
A police crackdown has also left deaths.
“Eight people were killed in a tea plantation (near Kericho township) and another one in Ainamoi township,” a police commander told AFP.
Another four people were killed Saturday in the Nyamira-Sotik border region, another police commander added.
Earlier police said seven people were killed in Kapsoit area as they headed to Ainamoi to support allies in a planned attack.
A total of 16 have been hacked to death or shot with poisoned arrows in Nyamira in western Nyanza province since Friday, another police commander told AFP, adding that nine others were killed in nearby localities.
Local police commander Japheth Daido said two people died during the night in Ainamoi, Too’s home district, where thousands went on the rampage Friday, killing a policeman. He said eight others had died there Friday.
Police also said they shot dead a demonstrator in the western opposition stronghold of Kisumu on Friday.
Arsonists burnt down a church in the northwestern town of Eldoret, police said, near another church that was set ablaze on January 1, killing 35 people sheltering inside. – Sapa-AFP
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080203090156475C838137