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050 0 0 _aHN 793.Z9V5575 2020
100 1 _aKlaus, Kathleen F.,
_d1985-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPolitical violence in Kenya :
_bland, elections, and claim-making /
_cKathleen F. Klaus.
260 _aCambridge, United Kingdom:
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2020.
300 _axvi, 357 pages :
_billustrations, maps.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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."--
650 0 _aPolitical violence
_zKenya.
650 0 _aLand tenure
_xPolitical aspects
_zKenya.
650 0 _aElections
_xCorrupt practices
_zKenya.
650 0 _aEthnic conflict
_zKenya.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aKlaus, Kathleen F., 1985-
_tPolitical violence in Kenya
_dCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
_z9781108488501
_w(DLC) 2019052354
942 _2lcc
_cBOOKS
_hHN 793.Z9V5575 2020
999 _c31589
_d31589