Obama's "cousin" denies ethnic cleansing charges

BBC:

Kenya's opposition leader has denied his supporters have engaged in ethnic cleansing, blaming government forces for targeting certain communities.

Raila Odinga was responding to accusations by Justice Minister Martha Karua that his group had planned to carry out systematic ethnic cleansing.

Mr Odinga told the BBC his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) had done all it could to prevent such violence.

He was speaking on the first of three days of protests over a disputed poll.

Police fired live rounds and tear gas in clashes with opposition party supporters who were defying a protest ban.

Clashes broke out Nairobi, Mombasa and in western Kenya, where three people were killed.

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More than 600 people have died in unrest since, and another quarter of a million have been driven from their homes.

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Raila Odinga claims to be Obama's cousin since Obama's father was from the same tribe. The killings have definitely had a tribal character with Odinga's group doing most of the killing. In one horrific case they burned a church filled with those from another tribe who had sought shelter there.