Scores dead in Kenya poll clashes

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Source: BBC

About 100 people have been killed across Kenya in violence blamed on the disputed presidential election.

A BBC reporter at a mortuary in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu saw about 40 bodies with gunshot wounds. A witness said police had opened fire.

There were running battles in Nairobi slums, and violence was reported in the coastal town of Mombasa.

Mwai Kibaki was officially re-elected president while Raila Odinga says he was robbed of victory by voting fraud.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7165602.stm

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1. Meanwhile, back in the States....

The sheeple baaa-ed in a sad fashion and calmly went about their business as President Bush was reelected to a third term. "It is what the people want," President-For-Life George W. Bush said in a press conference. "And when America speaks, I listen. They're the bosses, I'm just the elected figurehead."

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2. Buried in that article: massive election fraud.

"Results changed

European Union monitors were barred from counting centres in the Central Province, chief EU election observer Alexander Graf Lambsdorff told the BBC.
Results declared by the electoral commission in Nairobi from one constituency differed from those announced locally, he said.
He reported seeing altered voting forms where "all the changes favoured the same candidate".
Anomalies amounted to 20,000-25,000 votes in one constituency alone, he continued.
Mr Kibaki's national margin of victory was 230,000 votes."

The media coverage of this mess has been nearly as horrendous as the stolen election itself. Kibaki lost the election and then proceeded to delay the official count while cooking up new results to declare himself the winner.

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3. US urged the People to accept the results and use the courts to challenge.

Latest I heard 185+ dead. Police are instructed, shoot to kill.

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4. No oil in Kenya I gues...

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5. EU observers: poll 'lacked credibility', was 'flawed', 'fell short of international standards'

EU observers said the country's election fell short of international standards.

"They were marred by a lack of transparency in the processing and tallying of presidential results, which raises concerns about the accuracy of the final results," the EU team said in a statement.

According to the EU, in at least two constituencies - Molo and Kieni - the results that were announced did not reflect the number of votes cast.

EU observers say they heard the voting figures being announced in Molo itself, but when the same results were announced again in Nairobi, the number of votes for Mr Kibaki was significantly higher - by 25,000.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7166590.stm

That 25,000 was a 50% increase in the Kibaki 'vote' - we're not talking chicken feed:

The European Union chief election observer, Mr Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, said the ECK had not succeeded in establishing the credibility of the tallying process to the satisfaction of all parties and candidates in the presidential race.

"The result for the Molo constituency, for example, was announced in the presence of EU observers at the constituency tally centre as 50,145 votes for President Kibaki, while the ECK declared the result for the President to be 75,261 votes," he said.


"Because of this and other observed irregularities, some doubt remains as to the accuracy of the result of the presidential election as announced today," he said in a statement.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200712310011.html