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Political violence in Kenya : land, elections, and claim-making / Kathleen F. Klaus

Klaus, Kathleen, 1985- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020

xvi, 357 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Political violence in Kenya / Klaus, Kathleen (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-108-48850-1 (hardback)

978-1-108-72646-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-108-76406-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2019052354

OCoLC: 1183710309     

MI 54096      Ähnliche Literatur

HN793.Z9

303.6096762

FIV Notation: RF04.01: Afrika südlich der Sahara / Ostafrika / Kenia ; SF04.01: Staat / Politische Partizipation / Wahlen ; SH06: Wirtschaft / Agrarsektor

*Kenia ; Grundeigentum ; Wahl ; Politischer Konflikt ; Minderheitenfrage      Zum Register

FIV-Themen: Kenia ; Wahl/Abstimmung ; Politisch motivierte Gewaltanwendung ; Politische Unruhen ; Bestimmungsfaktoren ; Landkonflikt ; Ursache

FIV-Aspekte: Grundbesitz ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Kikuyu ; Kalenjin

LOC-SH: Political violence -- Kenya ; Land tenure -- Political aspects -- Kenya ; Elections -- Corrupt practices -- Kenya ; Ethnic conflict -- Kenya

"On the evening of December 30 2007, Kenya's Electoral Commission (ECK) announced the winners of the general election. Residents in the farming community of Mauche had gathered around radios and televisions in local bars and cafés to listen to the electoral results. Community members, most of whom identified as Kalenjin, were confident that their candidate, Raila Odinga of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party, would win. The mood shifted quickly, however, as the incoming electoral returns pointed to a victory for incumbent Party of National Unity (PNU). ODM supporters in Mauche and elsewhere viewed the PNU win as a sign that the incumbent party had rigged the election. Anxiety and tension grew as residents watched TV images of a prominent ODM candidate, William Ruto, dragged off-stage by Kenya's military police. A young resident recounts, "When we saw this we knew the whole of the Kalenjin community had no one to champion for their rights, so the youths from the Kalenjin community proceeded to attack the Kikuyu." Another resident explains how some community members "resorted to fighting" when their candidate didn't win because "they knew the next thing was their eviction." That evening, Mauche residents crossed into the neighboring village of Likia and began torching the homes and properties of their Kikuyu neighbors."--