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Titolo: [Kenya] news...

La situazione difficile meriterebbe una nostra preghiera, ogni
giorno... il Kenya sta uscendo da un periodo di corruzione e..
torture!!!
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Kamau Ngotho
Nairobi 
The man who was at the helm of Kenya's internal security at the
height of the crackdown on dissidents has broken his 15-year silence
to reveal that the torture and persecution was a "black operation"
carried out outside government security channels.
Not even the country's topmost security organ, the National Security
Committee, was told what was happening, according to retired
Commissioner of Police, Mr Bernard Njiinu.
At security meetings, the man who was presumed to be running the
crackdown, then Internal Security Permanent Secretary, Mr Hezekiah
Oyugi, would not allow a discussion of Mwakenya (banned movement).
"He gave the impression that the matter was so classified, not even
to be discussed at the National Security Committee," Mr Njiinu told
the Sunday Nation in an exclusive interview.
The seven-member committee was chaired by then Vice-President and now
President Mwai Kibaki. The members were Internal Security Minister
Justus ole Tipis, Internal Security PS the late Hezekiah Oyugi,
Police Commissioner Njiinu, the Chief of the General Staff Gen
Mohamoud Mohammed, Intelligence chief James Kanyotu and CID Director
Noah arap Too.
But there were doubts as to whether Mr Oyugi was the real mastermind
and the security chiefs suspected he too was not completely in the
picture.
"Oyugi could have been executing what had been decided elsewhere. I
don't think he was the real mastermind of it or knew it's entire
agenda."
As police boss, Mr Njiinu was technically the head of the CID and the
Directorate of Intelligence. Yet he says nothing about Mwakenya was
communicated to him in his official capacity. "It is funny to say
that all I knew about the Mwakenya crackdown is what I read in the
newspapers like anybody elsewhere."
However, he admitted that as an Intelligence officer, he could pick
"a clue here and a clue there and piece together a picture of what
was going on".
Mr Njiinu took over as Police Commissioner on August 21, 1982, only
three weeks after the attempted coup by rebel Kenya Air Force
soldiers. He gives a dramatic account of the appointment at State
House, Nairobi. (See details on Page 11).
He left the force in 1988 after attaining the retirement age of 55.
It is during his tenure that the government ruthlessly cracked down
on suspected dissidents. Besides the purge in the military that had
the Air Force disbanded and almost it's entire personnel
court-martialled, the government turned the heat on ordinary.
The first target were suspected members of a shadowy organisation
called the December 12 Movement and which was said to publish a
"seditious" leaflet called Pambana. The casualties in this category
were vocal MPs, university lecturers and students and ordinary
citizens.
Soon after December 12 Movement there came talk of secret
organisation called the Mwakenya/Mpatanishi. The latter too, was said
to be engaged in publishing and distribution of anti-government
literature among other acts of "sabotage".
Inevitably all the victims of Pambana and Mwakenya who lived to tell
their story talk of the dreaded Nyayo House torture cells. It was not
until early last month that the government cast aside the veil of
secrecy and allowed the world a glimpse of Kenya's biggest
post-independence shame at the basement of the 24 storey Nyayo House.
Mr Njiinu now said his six-year stint as police chief was the most
trying period in his three-decade career as a policeman. Previously,
he had been the long serving presidential security head to founder
president, Jomo Kenyatta and his successor, Daniel arap Moi.
He said many were the times he disagreed with his boss, President
Moi. He also talks of clashes with a former powerful minister from
the Rift Valley as well as with then Internal Security Minister Tipis
and his PS Mr Oyugi. Mr Tipis died an ordinary citizen in July 1994.
Mr Oyugi had died three years earlier.
He says that the period he was police chef was the most difficult to
work for the government as there was not much regard for the chain of
command. He also describes it as a period of "too much suspicions and
witch hunting".
He traces the genesis of it all to the abortive 1982 coup, adding
that the attempted coup drove the country's top leadership into panic
and it "began to see enemies where there were none".
Besides the security crackdown, that was the same period the country
went through a ruthless political purge in the only political party,
Kanu.
There was also an economic crackdown that saw the closure of
targetted indigenous banks and sabotage of the agricultural sector in
certain politically "incorrect" areas.
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aggiungo che il Kenyatta jr, quello che ha perso le elezioni, sta
tramando la secessione della Rift Valley....

 tramando la secessione della Rift Valley....
suo padre lo ammazza prima.
y.

e se non interviene? vuol dire che hanno ragione i cattivi?
qs- tipo di preghiera ( di HELP) io la inte3ndo cosi':
- quando e se ci sono situazioni di particolare bisogno
  e' giusto chiedere ai fratelli una particolare preghiera.
- in Kenya sono ad un punto 'critico' per 1000 motivi..
- vengo alla risposta alle tue queries:
  preghiamo perche' Dio li aiuti ad uscire dalla corruzione,
  a costruire uno Stato libero e vicino a a chi ha piu' bisogno,
  senza violenze ecc. ec.
NOn entro nel merito del bruciare i cattivi: se lo facessi
contraddirei il <fiat voluntas tua>.
Aggiungo comunque che personalemnte annetto un 
significato enorme alla crescita di partecipazione
di OGNI Uomo ai destini di tutta l'Umanita'
(cfr: punto OMEGA di Theilard...)
pit bum

   senza violenze ecc. ec.
come dovrebbe aiutarli Dio?
Nel senso: preghiamo per i profughi sudanesi. OK, ma Dio cosa dovrebbe fare,
mandare loro la manna?
y.

preghiamo per i profughi sudanesi. 
se dovessi usare lo stesso tuo <modo> di porti nei miei confronti
a questo punto dovrei risponderti: cambiato pusher?
ma preferisco mille volte tagliare il discorso.
pit bum

 ha scritto nel
messaggio news:6bc66vo7it3hhluqj...@4ax.com...
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prendo atto, per l'ennesima volta, che non hai nessuna propensione al
dialogo.
y.

 dialogo.
come era chiaramente comprensibile, non era la mia una domanda retorica, ma
semplicemente: che senso ha la preghiera cristiana?
y.