Revisiting Mt. Elgon - KNHCR

The clashes in the Mount Elgon region made a brief appearance in the national media a few months ago, before being displaced and in many quarters forgotten.

Here at KenyaImagine Collins Mbalo and Patience Wanga penned their thoughts bringing to this forum the much needed discussion. KenyaImagine contacted the KNHCR to find out what actions they had taken with regard to the situation. What follows here is an interview with the Kenya National Human Rights Commission on their response to the calamity.

Read the interview here.

Silent Genocide

As I watched "Agenda Kenya" yesterday on a local television, it suddenly downed on me that perhaps as a nation we are yet to grasp the enormity and the seriousness of the situation prevailing in Mt Elgon and Bungoma areas in Western Kenya.

With no official statement as of yet from the Government one cannot preclude complicity. With one stark word I state its "Genocide"- on our own backyard!

Collins Mbalo on the Mt. Elgon clashes, " As we will settle down to sleep tonight, it pains to realize that thousands of fellow Kenyans will not enjoy the luxury of peaceful sleep. They will not sleep in the comfort of their homes but in fear and with the knowledge their country is not doing enough in their behalf."

Mt. Elgon-- the Ogiek clashes

Are Ogiek lesser Kenyans?

Kenyans in the Diaspora, who will cry for the Ogiek? Is their blood so useless it needs to water the ground?

This needs to be the test for Kibaki's presidency. Clashes should have ended with Mr. Moi, it is shameful that Kenya still goes through such barbarism.

Patience Wamba makes a passionate plea to Kenyans to speak out on the clashes in the Mt. Elgon area.