Protesters run away from tear gas in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back surging crowds of Kenyan protesters heeding an opposition call for a "million-man" rally that many fear could worsen the violence that has already killed 300 people and displaced 100,000.
Some of the bodies in the Nairobi Mortuary lie piled up Thursday Jan. 3, 2007, during a visit by Raila Odinga, the opposition leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Pantagon ODM members, James Orengo, and William Ruto. Raila Odinga claimed many people have been killed in the past few days during post-election violence. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back surging crowds of Kenyan protesters heeding an opposition call for a "million-man" rally that many fear could worsen the violence that has already killed 300 people and displaced 100,000. The political dispute has degenerated into ethnic violence nationwide pitting Kibaki's influential Kikuyus against Odinga's Luos and other tribes.
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