Kenyan officials plotted the attacks that killed hundreds

Source: McClatchy

NAIROBI, Kenya — A leading human rights group said Monday that Kenyan political and business leaders plotted much of the country's recent ethnic violence, and it urged the new coalition government to bring the organizers to justice.

New York-based Human Rights Watch found evidence that hundreds of people were killed in planned ethnic attacks following the disputed presidential election in December. In many cases, the group said, the attacks were planned and financed by prominent civic leaders, although the group didn't directly implicate any top national politicians.

More than 1,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced by more than two months of fighting, which destroyed Kenya's reputation as a stable democracy. Last month President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga — who claimed that Kibaki stole the election — agreed to form a coalition government and a commission to investigate the violence.

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Of course news reports at the time put most of the blame on the opposition. Now that the story is out of the headlines the truth comes out.

Kick. And this needs more media coverage.