At least 24 people have died in fighting between residents of a central Kenyan town and suspected members of the outlawed Mungiki sect, police say.
A police spokesman, Charles Owino, said residents of Karatina had decided to fight back because the sect had been extorting money from local people.
Media reports say there has been a spate of killings targeting the sect.
The Mungiki, mainly from President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu ethnic group, are seen as Kenya's version of the mafia.
Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe urged local people not to take the law into their own hands.
Reports say groups of residents started attacking suspected Mungiki members and slashing some of them to death, after the gang had threatened to expel everyone from the town.
At least three more people were wounded in the violence.
How can things like this be stopped or prevented from happening? IS there a way?
the people are looking for a stable place to turn, so somehow, they need to set up a strong governemnt, but good luck to them, they will certainly need it...
the people are looking for a stable place to turn, so somehow, they need to set up a strong governemnt, but good luck to them, they will certainly need it...
send Obama there hahaha. those Kenyans go crazy for him, when realistically he isn't going to do anything more to help Kenya than from helping Lesotho.
unless we send our army in there to work it all out, then i dont think there is a way.
i hate to say, the US isnt going to send our troops in to stop a small kenyan mafia. the only way this can be fixed is if they fix themselves
yes thank you vanessa! no more of this stupid thing where the US tries to fix the world! its not our business and it will just add more people to the list of people that hate America. Isolationism wasnt a bad thing...
unless we send our army in there to work it all out, then i dont think there is a way.
i hate to say, the US isnt going to send our troops in to stop a small kenyan mafia. the only way this can be fixed is if they fix themselves
yes thank you vanessa! no more of this stupid thing where the US tries to fix the world! its not our business and it will just add more people to the list of people that hate America. Isolationism wasnt a bad thing...
