Massacre horror at Kenyan school

[Pert_UK]

"Hundreds of armed men surrounded a primary school and nearby houses in northern Kenya before opening fire killing at least 56, a local MP says.

One mother told of how the gunmen killed her two children and beheaded her husband while she watched.

Tuesday's early morning raid in the village of Turbi - populated mainly by the Gabra - is blamed on the rival Borana from across the Ethiopia border.

The two groups have feuded over water and pasture in the semi-arid region.

Cross-border raids for livestock are common in the area but correspondents say this is one of the most deadly such attacks in Kenya's history."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4678211.stm

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Unfortunately, this will hardly make a blip

in the mass conscienceness of the planet.

The attitude seems to be 'Oh its Africa, no big deal'. In the meantime missing Blond girls on vacation are much more important.

[raccoon]

8. I was thinking similarly that this probably won't even

be mentioned in the American corporate media.

[malaise]

18. I haven't seen it anywhere else

How sad.
<edit add sentence>
Damn it just made local news.

[bluestateguy]

2. This might make it to page B6 of the newspaper

For a one day story, anyway....

[Joy Anne]

3. good grief!

I suspect the underlying cause is global warming leading to desertification.

[livinginphotographs]

6. Good catch.

Fighting a war over water is a scary look at things to come.

[raccoon]

9. And it will get worse. nt

[Cha]

12. Massacring children over

anything should be brought be the UN.

Oh expcept when the USA does it in the name of bush's war on IRaq. :mad: :grr:

[Joy Anne]

15. water wars elsewhere

I've heard it said that the underlying cause of the Arab-Israeli wars is water: who's diverting what stream where before it gets to my land; they've got swimming pools and I don't have enough water for my goats, etc.

[johannes1984]

4. If we could only conceive

what the most part of africa has to go trough , our lives would become so drastically different .It's going to come and haunt us eventually , the fact we left a few hundred million in absolute chaos while enjoying SUV's and blogs ....luckily at least we're not the ones defending that , merely the ones cursing it .

example given , the immense child abuse going on .It's a crime so horrific , i can't even bring to bear reading the UN reports .But if we ever want to figure out apt punishment for the fox people , and rupert murdoch himself , i know a few cobalt mines in Congo which'ld do them a world of goood .

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. It is unbelievable

that Africa is so rich in resources, yet the African people live in abject poverty.

They've got it all. Oil, gold, diamonds, and much more. But Bu$hCo and others are more then glad to take all of Africa's riches and in return, fuel their civil wars with an endless supply of arms. Only when the multi-nationals stop rapping Africa, will the Africa people have any chance at a descent life.

[DoctorMyEyes]

7. We were just talking about this last night

My husband and I. We were ridiculing the audacity of powerful world governments, who robbed the riches of the African continent for decades, laid it and it's people to waste - and now want to debate "debt forgiveness"!?!? Oh, yeah - they owe us! Assholes.

I sometimes do websites for non-profit groups, and I just finished one a few weeks ago for a Kenyan youth group. I learned a lot about the region and the people while working on the site. This news is horrifying and sad. The poverty and suffering there already is almost unimaginable. I guess I will send my condolences to the Kenyan contacts that I made.

[johannes1984]

11. it is horrible

This isn't just a dark spot on our age , it reflects on us , as a kin in such a way , you can't but feel desperate and sad .Not just because we robbed them of their resources , or because we used them as pawns during both the colonial and cold war era .Or because we love our souvereignity so much it wouldn't be worth to save a few million with such a maaaaad idea as a just world for all .But because we fail so immensily to prepare this world , to make this world better for the next generations it makes me want to move to new zeeland's big island and never care about it again .

I swear the next person who tells me 'yeah but they're used to living like that ' is going to get the cursing of a lifetime .


If y'all have some spare time , you might write to the south african embassy or such and or just look into the situation of Mugabe's evictions .Mugabe destroyed 200.000 people's homes , because they voted the wrong way , and mbeki , the president of SA has yet to condemn this .Now the destruction of slums is a common thing in africa , but you have to start someplace right .And south africa whilst taking up it's righteous place as africa's power house has moral obligations too .I'ld suggest writting the US government , but those CEO of 's world's nr one up and comming coorporation are too busy turning the US into a third world country to care .

Suggestions or correction always welcome .

[soleft]

13. Africa is so rich in resources - there you go

This enforced ignorance and lack of action by the west is by design - it's genocide by omission, and it's part of the ruling elite's game plan.

[maddezmom]

10. AFP: At least 76 killed, including 26 children, in northern Kenya clan vio

TURBI, Kenya (AFP) - At least 76 people, including 26 children, have been killed in two brutal attacks in northeastern Kenya in what is believed to be the country's worst ever episode of inter-clan violence, officials said.

Bonaya Godana, member of parliament for the district where the attacks took place, said 56 villagers, most of them young children and their mothers, had been killed in a Tuesday raid on Turbi village and all of them buried the day after.

Police said 10 of the attackers had also died during and after the early morning raid, which terrified survivors said was an attack by the Borana clan on the rival Gabra clan spurred by long-running disputes over water and pasture.

A Catholic church official said 10 Boranas, including four children, were killed later Tuesday in an apparent revenge attack near Sololo township, north of Turbi, after they were plucked from a vehicle being driven by a priest.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050713/wl_afp/kenyacrimeshooting_050713113454

[bribri16]

14. God, my heart is aching. How much more can the world take?

If God is merciful he will beam us all up today!

[Ernesto]

16. My 80 year old fundy father in law just arrived in Kenya

for a month of evangelical meetings. Don't worry, he is bringing the "lord" to their rescue!

[daleo]

17. There doesn't seem to be a religious dimension to this:

Boran: Muslim, Christian;
Gabra: mainly traditional religion, Christian, some Muslim;
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gax

A little more background.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200507111165.html