It Continues to Get Worse

Gunmen kill Kenyan opposition lawmaker

...“We wish to find one, a Kikuyu. ... We will butcher them like a cow,” said David Babgy, 24, who was among 50 young men stopping buses at a roadblock of burned cars and uprooted lamp posts....

City known for flowers becomes a war zone
Naivasha, Kenya’s flower-exporting capital on a freshwater lake inhabited by pink flamingoes, became a war zone Monday where some 2,000 people from rival ethnic groups faced off, taunting each other with machetes and clubs inset with nails.

Each time they approached each other, a handful of police holding a line between them fired live bullets into the air. They retreated, only to regroup.

“We want peace, but we (also) want to fight them,” said Peter Mwangi, 20. “We don’t want Luos here,” he said.

“This is Kikuyu land!” they cried, calling for revenge.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Kenya has “gone from bad to worse, in terms of the violence.”