Kikuyu tribe all but vanishes from city

From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) | Date: January 31, 2008| Author: The Associated Press | Copyright information

KISUMU, Kenya (AP) - The young man hefting a machete at the burning roadblock was frustrated. He'd been looking for five days, but could not find a member of the Kikuyu tribe to kill.

Members of Kenya's biggest tribe have disappeared in their thousands from Kisumu, making it the first - but perhaps not the last - city to be ethnically cleansed.

"If we find any Kikuyus, we're going to slaughter them or burn them alive," 19-year-old Daniel Odongo said Wednesday, who wielded the mac...

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