Kenya in Crisis

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After recent elections in Kenya, domestic strife is out of control which this article describes in detail.

Civil war fears amid Kenyan violence
By Africa correspondent Andrew Geoghegan

Posted 1 hour 17 minutes ago
Updated 54 minutes ago

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Mob attack: A man stands beside the burnt remains of the burned-out Kenya Assemblies of God Church (AFP)

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In a normally peaceful town in the west of the country, hundreds of people were hiding in a church when a mob attacked. Those seeking shelter were beaten before the church was torched.

More than 50 people are believed to have burned to death. Many were children.

Pastor Jackson Nyanga says he witnessed the atrocity.

"After the elections people were attacking one another, and in part of that church people had gathered from different places for their security," he said.

"After torching the church, children died, around 25 in number, four elderly people, and many people who tried to confront them while injured."

Pastor Nyanga himself is in a critical condition.

"They are scared, they are frightened. In fact, they tried to run for their safety," he said.

More than 70,000 Kenyans have fled their homes as they try to escape the election-related violence.

The Kenyan Red Cross is describing it as a national disaster.

Is it Rwanda all over again, and will the international community once again sit by and let it happen?