Where are peace campaigns in rural areas?

  

Date Posted: 12/4/2012 3:53:41 AM

Posted By: cliff93  Membership Level: Bronze  Total Points: 32

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Peace campaigns are mushrooming every where by the day. This is very commendable as it shows that we are all working towards preventing another ethnic war in our beautiful country Kenya. It is also interesting to note that these campaigns are coming from unusual quarters like fashion designers, just to name but a few. Our fellow countrymen who ply their trade in music have not also been left behind as they have come together to support peaceful elections. But I think there is a problem somewhere.

Are you wondering where?
We all know and it is public knowledge that the areas that were worst hit in the violence after the elections of 2007 were rural areas. We are not ruling put the fact that urban centers also experienced violence but it is the rural areas that bore the heaviest of the inhumane violence that occurred. Now if you look carefully, all the peace campaigns are majoring in the urban areas and giving rural areas a wide berth. Advertising peace in television sets and the internet is reaching out to the people in urban areas if I may say so.

Am not saying that nothing is being done but am pointing out that more needs to be done for us to say that we have done all our best. Even if it means a hut to a hut campaign all over the up country let us do it. That precaution is better than cure is common sense. Nobody wants to go back to that time when out was like Gaza strip. Out was out of bounds. When fifty shilling credit cards were going for hundred shillings and shops were burnt down. When we had to sleep hungry for days because we were hiding in a hole ,furiously praying that

we are not discovered. When our houses were burnt down with all our possession we had worked for so hard for over twenty years. When our livestock (50 dairy cattle), our means of survival, was wiped away by our neighbors. When our parents were killed as we watched, remember? Oh maybe you were in town. Please let us focus on the rural areas to prevent another disaster. Let us prove prophecies wrong.

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