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According to popmatters.com, in the last year network
coverage on the Darfur Genocide averaged seven or eight
minutes. Coverage of Britney Spares (in comparison) numbered in the hundreds. It is no secret that the mass murder of blacks (especially on the African continent) is often given scant regard in the media.

Now I am not taking this article down the road of white over black disparities in media coverage; this is about another issue on which I will expunge later on.

I want you to know that I am writing about this not because of a feeling on my part of disappointment about the inaction by world leaders and lackluster attention given in the media on the mass murder of blacks; I am writing out of rage.

Time does not permit that I go into the details about what led to the current violence there; you can read it here. In summary, more than 100,000 people from the Kisi and other minority tribes have fled their homes, sometimes forced to leave the dead bodies of their relatives (at least 300 as of today), while seeking refuge in churches and police stations for fear of being killed by those of other tribes.

At the East African (Seventh-day Adventist) University of Baraton (link), according to telegraph.co.uk, close to 200 students and staff are currently trapped on the campus, fearing for their lives. Why? Outside the campus gates, tribal warriors lay siege.

So what’s the big deal about this? Yet again, I’m glad you asked! In 1994, close to 800,000 were killed in what is known as the Rwandan Genocide and as I mentioned earlier, 450,000 in the (current) Darfur Genocide.

Of what relevance is this to Kenya? The tribal killings there and more recent media ban has striking similarities to and seem to be heading in the same direction as that of the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur. This must not happen! This should not happen!