Helicopters against Machete

The murder of the deputy from the opposition can push Kenya to the Civil War mass riots in Kenya reached unprecedented scale yesterday. In the capital of Nairobi, one of the most influential deputies from the opposition - Mugaba Vera was killed. According to the Kenyan police, the deputy shot two armed men when he drove up to the gates of his house around midnight. “We will investigate this business as a regular murder and so far we do not exclude any motives, including political ones,” said Kenya Police press secretary Eric Kirate. “We urge everyone to remain calm.”

Vera became part of the Kenya government on December 27 last year, when parliamentary and presidential elections took place in the country. The politician was an influential figure in the orange movement for democracy (ODD) - the main opposition party of the country.

The head of the ODD Ryle Odog, having learned about the death of his ally, said: “We suspect that our ill -wishers attached their dirty hands to this.” The ONEG requires a revision of the results of the presidential election, he is sure that Mvai Kibaki was declared the winner after the results of the results. Kibaki, re -elected for a new term, rejects the accusations, urging compatriots not to draw hasty conclusions.

From Kibaki, the former Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan, who is in Kenya as an international intermediary for establishing contact between the government and the opposition. Yesterday he made a statement that stated that political rivals agreed to begin the dialogue process.

The situation in the Kenyan cities did not affect Annan’s statement. The murder of Vera sprinkled a tough confrontation between the opposition and the Kibaki regime, which is aggravated by interdepa -tribal discord. The basis of the opposition ODD is the Luo tribe. The overwhelming number of supporters of the President of Kibaki are representatives of the Kikay tribe. In the course of the tribal clashes, more than 800 people were killed over the past month.

A few hours after the death of Vera, representatives of the Luo tribe, deciding to take revenge on the death of a fellow tribe, executed the doctor from the Kikay tribe. Several Luo armed Machete burst into the clinic in the suburbs of Nairobi, led the Kiko doctor from there and chopped off his head. Inter -tribal pogroms occur in almost all large cities of Kenya. Armed with stones, sticks or machete, people set fire to houses, attack representatives of other tribes.

Some Western media fear that interethnic clashes in Kenya can grow into a civil war. Due to the mass riots, more than 255 thousand Kenyans were forced to leave their homes. Yesterday, against the armed gangs in the city of Nivash, the government used combat helicopters.

01/29/2008 / Igor Kryuchkov, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 16 of 01.30.2008.