Comments on: Rift Valley Purges

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:59:38 +0000

Eric

There are varying schools of thought on your subject. I happen to agree with you – most of the time. Keep it up.

By: Anne-christine d'Adesky

Anne-christine d'Adesky — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:32:45 +0000

Hello Vigilante Journalist,

I am reading your posts and sharing your news with others. I’m a journalist also, and was in Nairobi in mid Jan. Since then trying to raise US awareness and put pressure on State Dept to take firmer action, etc.. working to publicize work of diff Kenyan civil society groups who are mobilizing. I am helping to put together a special issue of a US magazine, World Pulse, that I work with, on the Kenya crisis. Will include video I did in Nairobi with Ann Njogu, at Nairobi Women’s Hospital, etc.. and with Kenyans United In Peace for Truth and Justice.. Sailjah Patel..

Wanted to ask, on a late Sat night, if I might have permission from you to publish some of the photos in your blog, giving you credit, and including the link of your blog, in a sort of mini slide show that can help illustrate the talking head interviews I did with the Kenyans I mentoined above? I will post the interviews on You Tube, on the World Pulse channel, and have the links in the e-magazine that goes out next week. Please let me know as soon as possible. you can email me too, at weactx@gmail.com. Thank you. Anne-christine d’Adesky, Journalist, AIDS advocate, author “Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS” (Verso,2006).

415-690-6199 if you want to try to sms a reply.

Good luck and stay as safe as you can. Continued courage– AC

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:01:42 +0000

As someone who grew up in Kenya – many years ago now – it is indeed sad to see the violence.
Kikuyu, Luyha, Luo, Kalenjin and apparently now Kamba being dragged in. Atrocity, reprisal,
counter-reprisal, so it goes.

Kenyan independence, and its comparative success since then, were achieved by the major
tribes working together, but nobody today seems capable of reminding the mobs of that.

It sounds like the police can be criticised, but their position is not so easy either –
they’re all individuals from one tribe or another. Maybe an external intervention force
with no intra-Kenyan tribal ties will be the only solution; the current leadership is not
giving me any confidence.

A big thanks to the journos who are taking risks to get these photos and stories; it’s
this sort of output that’s most likely to lead to action.

By: Sura Mbaya

Sura Mbaya — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:01:05 +0000

Your pictures are absolutely shocking but they prove beyond doubt that the people of Kenya are suffering. This is a rather stupid request but pleas indulge me – in quite a number of the photos I have read captions describing the dead victims as having been shot by the police. If there was a way to actually capture the bullet wounds, this would help indict the police and by extension the government, whose blatant denials have now become legendary. In the near future, it will be necessary that photos of police extra-judicial killings be available as evidence.

I am just a concerned citizen that has is shocked and numbed by the callousness with which the police treat human lives.

By: someone watching

someone watching — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:28:41 +0000

Is it possible to post some of the peaceful demonstration that happened today among women at freedom corner or that is not so gruesome to show the world the broken Kenya? I wish someone would be highlighting some positives that are happening in Kenya even among bloggers like Afromusing!

By: Kenyan Pundit

Kenyan Pundit — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:48:23 +0000

Thanks for your honest reporting…wish we could have more of this from our local journalists if they could operate without constraints. I’d like to discuss Ushahidi (www.ushahidi.com0 with you – please drop a line when you can, we can use all the help on the ground that we can get.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:54:22 +0000

I also found this blog after getting fed up with the media’s near-blackout of real journalism from Afghanistan, and am happy to see this unerring voice of truth move onto Kenya. Keep up the good work. Because of people like you, willing to put it all on the line, the people are able to know what’s going on from an unbiased view. Thank you so much, and keep safe.

By: cactus

cactus — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:09:48 +0000

PS Vigilante – could you tell me where the photos of the Kikuyu packing their belonging were taken?

By: cactus

cactus — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:45:43 +0000

Thanks for the posts. It looks like the situation has crossed the line of no return. It is painful to see pictures of Kenyans who have been killed by their neighbours when only weeks ago they were friends. I am also depressed by the fact ordinary Kenyans are fighting what is essentially an inter-elite battle. Where will it end? Sad, sad, sad! May I use some of your photos Vigilante Journalist?

By: Gavin

Gavin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:11:41 +0000

I have just stumbled across this blog while searching for a clear account of events in Kenya (my brother and his family live in Nairobi). Many thanks for such clear, honest, professional journalism.
Gavin – London