Kenya Election Violence 2008
A frenzied outbreak of ethnic fighting erupted in the aftermath of the disputed 2007 presidential election, in which incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner despite widespread allegations of electoral manipulation by international observers. The conflict left more than 1,000 people dead and 600,000 displaced from their homes and led to charges at the ICC against current Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, but the charges were eventually dropped citing a lack of evidence blamed on witness intimidation and bribery.
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Kenyan men from the Luo tribe armed with machetes and rocks enforce a makeshift roadblock, searching passing vehicles for Kikuyus trying to flee the town in order to kill them, on the main road to the Ugandan border near the airport in Kisumu, Kenya, Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. In Kisumu on Monday angry young men blocked roads out of the town, set some houses and buses ablaze, and one driver was burned alive in his minibus, according to a witness. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A young girl cries as she is carried by a man and woman fleeing an area of wooden kiosks which was set on fire by supporters of Raila Odinga's party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), in the Kibera slum area of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back surging crowds of rock-throwing opposition protesters who took to the streets in a mass rally many feared would deepen the crisis wracking what had been one of Africa's most stable country's. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A Kenyan man sits in the cab of a destroyed truck used as a makeshift roadblock while a tyre burns on the roof, as he and others enforce the roadblock in Kisumu, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. The town of Kisumu is now almost completely ethnically cleansed of Kikuyus, and mobs armed with makeshift weapons erect burning roadblocks and search for the few Kikuyu targets remaining. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Supporters of Raila Odinga's party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), run back from tear gas grenades past the burning barricades they constructed, as they clash with police in the Kibera slum area of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back surging crowds of rock-throwing opposition protesters who took to the streets in a mass rally many feared would deepen the crisis wracking what had been one of Africa's most stable country's. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A supporter of Raila Odinga's party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), throws back a tear gas grenade fired by police, as he and others clash with them in the Kibera slum area of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back surging crowds of rock-throwing opposition protesters who took to the streets in a mass rally many feared would deepen the crisis wracking what had been one of Africa's most stable country's. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
** EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT ** The body of a woman who mortuary workers said died by strangulation the day after the election was held lies in a mortuary so full of bodies they still lay piled across floors at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008. Thousands of terrified Kenyans are fleeing the west of this troubled East African nation on buses escorted by soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, the burnt out shells of vehicles and the corpses of others who died trying. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
** EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Relatives stand on the mortuary slab as they try to identify hacked, burned and strangled family members in a mortuary so full of bodies they still lay piled across floors at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008. Thousands of terrified Kenyans are fleeing the west of this troubled East African nation on buses escorted by soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, the burnt out shells of vehicles and the corpses of others who died trying. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Wife Victoria Atamba, left, is comforted by sister-in-law Agneta Shalinga, right, after identifying the body of her husband at a mortuary so full of bodies they still lay piled across floors at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008. Thousands of terrified Kenyans are fleeing the west of this troubled East African nation on buses escorted by soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, the burnt out shells of vehicles and the corpses of others who died trying. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A baby looks across at semi-conscious Steven Mwangi, who was attacked during the recent fighting, as he waits to be treated in the hospital in Nakuru, Kenya, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. Sporadic gunshots sounded Saturday as police unloaded 16 charred bodies at the morgue of Nakuru, the western town suffering the latest explosion of fury over Kenya's deeply flawed presidential election. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A displaced Kikuyu mother and children, some of the few remaining in town and unable to leave yet, take refuge in a yard opposite the main police station in Kisumu, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. The town of Kisumu is now almost completely ethnically cleansed of Kikuyus, and mobs armed with makeshift weapons erect burning roadblocks and search for the few Kikuyu targets remaining. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
** EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT ** A boy holds a wireframe toy as he and others look on at the burnt corpse of a man, accused of taking advantage of the security situation for stealing and other criminal activity, beaten then set on fire by a mob in Kisumu, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. The town of Kisumu is now almost completely ethnically cleansed of Kikuyus, and mobs armed with makeshift weapons erect burning roadblocks and search for the few Kikuyu targets remaining. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
** EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT ** A friend Joshua, right, grieves uncontrollably over the body of Godfrey Odhiambo, 12, who died from a gunshot wound to the head, at a hospital in Kisumu, Kenya, Friday, Feb. 1, 2008. Eyewitnesses said Godfrey was hit by a bullet as police firing live rounds chased opposition supporters past where Godfrey was talking to a friend working at a coffin-making shop. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)