from Judy Miriga
Folks,
First and foremost, the subject question is now in the hands of the ICC Hague to comb and give a ruling where Kenya does not qualify to do.
But the fact remain that we all know the truth as the acts were done in broad day light all we are asking is that, let Justice be done. Those found guilty will definitely face the Law.
Those who Joe Kihara is trying to implicate, he is doing it at a wrong forum, I believe it would be just right for him to apply for visa to the Netherlands at ICC Hague and put up his challenging case there……
However, I am still in charge as a voice of reason, Diaspora Spokesperson, standing tall for the voiceless. From the onset, before and after, I led the voice of reason of the Diaspora to dialogue, debate, rally and demonstrated commitment. On the second of January 2008, I swiftly planned and organized where we formed a crowd of more than 300 Kenyans and Friends of Kenyans’ demonstrators who turned up in a cold chilly winter, before US State Department during Bush Administration, demanding for an immediate intervention on “Election Thieving” and to halt Election Violence.
Former President Bush took immediate initiative in response, where he send US State Secretary Condoleeza Rice to Kenya to mediate on the same. From that point on, I echoed that, ICC Hague is the answer ! …….I have not rested since then, but kept pressure and fire on all Leaders of the World including the UN Security Council and the ICC Hague to make good on the call of Post Election Violence and crime that have been committed in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, so to mark a symbol of change in leadership in Kenya and Africa and to guard over corruption and impunity, a monster pushing Africa into poverty death-bed and as well that African Leaders begin to play by the rule and respect the voice of reason and People’s mandate where they are required to honorably oblige and relinquish power safely and peacefully or face the law.
This we hope, will serve as a sign of responsible democracy taking root for just rule and good governance and we hope for an improved governance where Development Millennium Agenda is able to take root to benefit the people of Africa fairly from grassroot, who are the majority poor, without marginalization, discrimination or intimidation.
This behavior of Hard-Core Corrupt Leadership in Kenya and Africa has turned to be too cancerous and a dangerous monster quite unbearable. It is about time Africa see light and appreciate Blessings of God with a breathing space.
Therefore, Joe Kihara has no right to smear and create character assassination of Responsible Leaders of the West. It is a scheme they author and are nurturing thinking it will help them escape justice. They have lived in a world of wishful thinking for too long and escaped reason, but banked on indoctrinating fear factor on people they rule by iron fist for too long, imagining everyday is Sunday……Lucky go happy…..
They should know, it is time Mugumo tree can be cut by a razorblade……as the struggle continues……
Blame Game will die on thin air……….and because we want Peace, Reconciliation and Reconstruction to benefit common purpose and interests, we are looking forward to earn freedom to be enjoyed by all in a conducive environment on a fair level playing field.
ICC Hague is the way to go Joe…….No short-cut…….I am not going anywhere until this matter is fairly concluded in the best way Kenyans and Africans will appreciate Justice has finally dawned in Kenya and Africa …..
Cheers !
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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— Paul Nyandoto wrote:
From: Paul Nyandoto
OHO!, OHO! WAUUUU! what a story?.
An old parable goes like this: If somebody kills your child and you do not report to the police but you go home call your friends, make a meeting talk and come to agreement to take revenge and go a head and kill other people related to the man who is accused of killing your child. What do you call that?. Do you call that Obama, Sarkosy, Hillary Clinton, only supports ODM but not PNU or what?. I think it is high time we learn to know that killing people is not a game. Calling mass action is not the same as raping, burning people, fighting for land Kenyatta stole from the rift valley etc. or police use live bullets shoot to kill etc. How is mass action explaining Mungiki killings or secret state house meetings to kill luos in Naivasha?.
What this writer have forget is this: The killings were done when somebody had already sworn himself at night, so Kenya had a government to protect people, but completely failed. Instead made meetings to kill more.
Paul Nyandoto
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Joe Kihara Munugu wrote:
Who Caused Kenya’s 2007 Post Election Violence & Why?
By Paul N. Njoroge : Nairobi, Kenya : March 30, 2011
What’s been happening lately in Libya has been an eye-opener about the real nature of the leaders in America and in the West. I now have no doubt they are a thoroughly bad lot, spiritually and morally petty, arrogant and full of contempt for people with less power than they. Of course, things are very worrying for all of us who live in the so-called Third World.
I’m certain the Second Scramble for African territory is on, and the operating ideology the ideology of the Sarkozies, Obamas and Hillary Clintons is: Might is Right!
They’ll insist on imposing puppet-leaders on our (Third World) countries.
I have begun to understand what’s been going on. For example the way these Western countries were committed to regime change in Kenya during the 2007 elections in spite of the fact that the incumbent president Mwai Kibaki is a man in real liberal mold, and had shown commitment in respecting human and democratic rights. Western powers were fed up with Kibaki simply because he was not at their beck and call, and he’d dared to do business with China.
Kibaki had also dared to pursue the attainment of national economic self-sufficiency. Somebody told me, “The white man [western powers] is not prepared to walk shoulder-to-shoulder with the African.” How true!
In contrast, Raila Odinga was ready to court the West in order to ascend to power, while treating his own Kenyan heritage with contempt. Raila’s 2007 elections campaign was premised on the proposition that nothing positive had ever been achieved during the whole period since Kenya became independent. Raila’s campaign was undemocratic and fascistic. It mobilized wholesale ethnic hatred against the Agikuyu. ODM’s 2007 election slogan was ‘Forty-One against One’, meaning all the forty-one Kenyan tribes against the enemy Kikuyus.
Nobody from the so-called democratic West ever pointed to Raila that democratic electoral campaigns are never conducted in such hateful manner against a whole innocent ethnic group.
Not Bush, not Condoleza Rice, not Barrack Obama raised a finger or warned Raila against such call and drumbeat for an all out violence on a whole Kenyan people, Kikuyus, based purely on their ethnicity. They failed to warn Raila that his conduct was grievous crime against humanity.
Following investigations by an independent commission, South African judge Johann Kriegler wrote a report on the conduct of the 2007 elections in Kenya. Kriegler acknowledged that the ODM campaign relied heavily on the demonization of the Kikuyu.
Judge Kriegler noted that a prominent feature of the ODM campaigns (before people voted) was the claim that only rigging could prevent ODM from taking power at the elections. The commission did not find evidence of rigging at the KICC, as alleged by ODM.
Now, I have no doubt in my mind that America and the Western countries are grooming Raila Odinga to seize power come 2012. The International Criminal Court (ICC) process has been politicized to achieve that end. In all seriousness, how could one charge William Ruto and Henry Kosgey, two members of the ODM Pentagon and not charge the other members of the ODM high command, including their captain Raila Odinga who ordered all ODM members to mass action? Who can’t see Obama’s hand in this political scheming?
But is it going to work? I’ll bet Raila Odinga will be called into the trials as a witness. Even Obama will not stop this. At the ICC trials it will be demonstrated that the violence that followed the 2007 elections had been planned in advance. It’ll be clearly established that it was, in fact, part and parcel of the campaign of ethnic hate against the Kikuyu carried out systematically by ODM. It will be established that the violence was the natural outcome of that ODM campaign.
It’ll also be demonstrated that the worst didn’t take place. Why? Because the violence was planned to take place in the context of the then anticipated electoral victory by ODM. Victory was perceived in the minds of the entire ODM high command as certain, long before the voters went to the polls.
The 2007 post election violence had been planned to right the “historical wrongs” in Kenya once and for all – by expelling millions of Kikuyus and other non-Kalenjin people from the Rift Valley.
It was planned to have been carried out under an ODM-controlled state security machinery, which was expected to be in place immediately after the 2007 elections. This project was designed by the whole ODM high command.
It would have been carried out while the so-called International Community averted its eyes. But God prevented it: the reins of state power did not slip from the hands of ODM’s enemies – and the country, inspite of the horrific and massive sufferings, was saved! So, who’s bluffing who by the current exhibition of self-righteous bravado in the current chorus about taking the Ocampo Six to The Hague? If I was any member of the ODM High Command, I’d be more afraid than Uhuru Kenyatta, Francis Muthaura, or Police Commissioner Maj. Gen. Mohamed Hussein Ali.
For the truth will surely come out as an answer to the ultimate question: Who was the prime, the first, cause of the violence? The world may watch in fascination after the ODM High Command are summoned as witnesses. That will enable this question to be answered. The answer to the question “Who responded to the originally organized violence” will, most likely, take a back seat.