Kenya

Kenya, a country located in the eastern part of Africa. A country known for its historical landmark, Mount Kenya and its activities in sports such as long distance running(in which they sweep a lot of gold medals at athletic events), rugby and soccer. Kenya is not a country known for fighting or any other such things but recently the country has being thrown into turmoil as a result of the recent elections that just took place. The opposition parties disagreed with the results of the recent election and as a result, there has being a lot of fighting in the once peaceful nation. To show how bad things were in Kenya, CNN showed a little video clip to viewers taken by a freelance journalist, who was scared as hell while shooting the whole thing that was happening and I will narrate the contents of the video in detail and it goes thus: A man on the run(to viewers, he was running for no apparent reason, but he was really trying to run away from the bloodshed behind him) is spotted by another man wielding a machete. The man with the machete pulls the innocent man from his hiding place, and he calls his other friends, they themselves wielding machete, to where the innocent man was. What was to follow was simply shocking and sickening to the stomach. The machete wielding men proceeded to hack this innocent man to death. CNN could not show the rest of the clip because it was just too gruesome to be broadcast on TV. What I saw got me thinking about how human beings would act like this towards each other. The most annoying thing about this whole story is the fact that this same opposition leaders kept encouraging their supporters in doing what they were doing, rather that telling them to stop killing and stop the bloodshed. The images posted above just goes onn to show how bad things are in Kenya. This bloodshed has led to a loss of thousands of innocent lives. Things are getting quiet as of recent thanks in part to other countries getting a whole lot more involved in everything that has being going on in Kenya.

Being where I am from, and knowing how bad things can really get, I would have to express my joy at the fact that things in this once volatile country are getting back to normal.