Kenyan politicians accused of stoking tribal violence

Kenyan politicians were behind the violence that killed more than 1,000 people following the country’s disputed presidential election, a watchdog group declared today.

A report by Human Rights Watch also found that police shot hundreds of protesters in Nairobi, the western port town of Kisumu and other towns between late December and early January. In many cases, it said, witnesses reported that the police had not acted in self-defence and had not been provoked.