IS IT ALMOST TIME FOR A KENYAN GENOCIDE ?

A story is told of a nation in the East of Africa called Rwanda.It was inhabited by the Hutu's, Tutsi's and the Twa.  The Rwandan people before colonization reared animals for livelihood.The Rwandan genocide resulted from the elites promotion of hatred and fear to keep itself in power. This small Hutu extremists within Rwanda’s political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country’s increasing social, economic, and political pressures. The Tutsi were rich and the Hutus were majority poor. On April 6, 1994, an airplane carrying Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was brought down as i was about to land into the town of  Kigali, Rwanda killing all on board.

Dead bodies scattered in a field  Rwanda

What followed thereafter was a mass slaughter and  blood bath,  that Left about 1,000,000 Rwandans dead. It is believed that the government led officials in the army and the police blocked up the roads along the major highways and checked peoples identity cards, all those who were perceived to be in the enemies were murdered in cold blood then and there. Then the Tutsi inhabited villages were raided and soon after the once fresh water bodies were flowing with fresh human blood and tons of dead bodies.

young boy mourns near a grave

After a period of 100 days the villages went silent, no more cries and wailing. One could neither see people walking in the streets of Kigali ,Rwanda nor working in the farms with their livestock grazing by the side, there was no music to be danced , sad faces covered as the smells of dead people filled the air. Dilapidated bodies of innocent children , men and women were splattered by the road side. A walk in the villages revealed shallow graves perhaps that hid the cowardliness and the desire by the perpetrators to ensure none of the victim woke up and told the world as to committed the crime and why.  What remains today perhaps are the skulls in the museums to serve as memory to the Rwandans and the world at large about that fateful period in time.

A young boy walks past dead bodies

The tale of Rwanda is a sad tale of  political intolerance, hatred , tribalism, poor leadership and injustice. The then leaders of Rwanda inculcated hatred among the citizens through their boastful proud, arrogant and inciting statement. The citizens had at that time never engaged in civil war and it caught many unawares and more so because of the nature of violence that was witnessed. The literacy and the uncivilized nature of the general citizenry contributed much in fueling the mass Human slaughter that was witnessed.

A lecturer at the University of Nairobi, a few weeks gave out a prediction of a possible genocide. He claims that the political scene being experienced in Kenya is slowly brewing and setting the stage for what will be one of the worst political genocide of the century. The level of carelessness by the leaders from the both the Kenyan political divide , the jubilee Government and the Cord Opposition is a recipe for violence. In analysis, there is a lot of ethnic/tribal suspicion that even the president Uhuru Kenyatta admits and mentions  in nearly in  all his addresses since he was sworn in as the president. He acknowledges that the is a sharp division between his supporters and the opposition and he passionately talks of uniting the nation though he still admits that is a challenge. Judging from the arguments and comments from social these prediction may be hard to rule ot as those who should be uniting the nation seem to be doing nothing, the leaders enjoy unwavering support with such divisions and this is no different from Rwanda.

Do you visualize Civil war or Genocide coming in Kenya  ?