About Somalia and Kenya
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STATE KENYAN WRITERS AND PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
We, the undersigned, register, in the strongest terms, our opposition
to Kenya’s military incursion into Somalia.
We note that several months at minimum is required to plan a military
operation that involves crossing borders. Therefore the reasons put
forward by the Kenyan government for this operation are demonstrably
false.
Statements from the French Government (see link below) and Medicins
Sans Frontieres contradict the Kenyan Government’s allegation that Al-
Shabaab is responsible for the kidnapping of Marie Dedieu and two
other foreigners.
We will kill Somalis and call them Al-Shabaab. We will all feel very
Kenyan indeed.
They die, so we can create a national amnesia about 350,000 internally
displaced Kenyans, missing World Bank monies, missing Education
Ministry funds, the ICC-Kenya trials, 2012 elections, the
implementation of our new constitution.
The army will claim, as invading armies always do, that they have
courageously engaged the enemy, when they have really killed innocent
civilians.
All Kenyans paying already for this bout of blood-thirst. We will go
on paying, for many years to come. We will pay with our taxes, our un-
built schools and hospitals, our unpaid teachers, our still-jobless
youth, our rapidly deteriorating security situation, our shattered
relationship with our neighbours.
We do not require the death of Somalis to know who and where we are.
SIGNED: (in alphabetical order)
Nguru Karugu
Keguro Macharia
Paul Mwangi Maina
Tom Maliti
Dr. Firoze Manji
Abdulrahman Mirimo
Dr. Wambui Mwangi
Kenne Mwikya
Benjamin Wambua Ndolo
Onyango Oloo
Odhiambo Oyoko
Shailja Patel
Philo Ikonya
I worked for Quakers international (Peace program) for ten years. I left in April, 2011. I learnt one thing - no war whatsoever is justified. Dialogue - genuine dialgue is still the only way to lasting peace. EHO
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