{"id":925,"date":"2017-10-11T22:21:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T22:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2017-10-11T22:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T22:22:21","slug":"analysis-post-at-least-37-people-were-killed-in-election-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2017\/10\/11\/analysis-post-at-least-37-people-were-killed-in-election-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis Post: At least 37 people were killed in election violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 8th, 2017, Kenyan electoral bodies announced Uhuru Kenyatta as the winner of the election. Immediately, the opposing candidate, Raila Odinga claimed the election was rigged and announced that he was the true winner. Due to the immense amount of controversy and seen irregularities surrounding the election, the Kenyan supreme court nullified the election results. Though an October 26th rerun election is set to be held, Odinga stated that he would withdraw if an overhaul within the electoral commission did not occur. However, since the annulment, the Kenyan congress, with heavy influence from the party of the incumbent, passed a law saying that if one candidate were to withdraw from an election, the other would automatically assume the presidency. Due to all of this disarray surrounding the elections, protests arose all the slums of Nairobi, leaving 37 people, including children, dead. All of the deaths were caused by police firing their weapons into the crowds and by bludgeoning the protesters to death. Last week on Monday, opposition protesters took to the streets of Nairobi after Odinga announced his withdrawal, and were teargassed. However awful this violence and death that has arisen from the widespread disorder may be, it is important to understand the complete severity of the situation. Back in 2007, disputed election results triggered tribal disputes causing the death of over 1100 people. Because of opposition politician James Orengo stating that they will not back down until they know that the election results will be fair, and the that the newly enacted law pretty much ensuring the \u201cre-election\u201d of Kenyatta, it is unclear of what will happen in the future. Although, taking into account the amount of protests \u00a0all around Kenya, and also the deadly response by Kenyan security forces, it is entirely possible that a similar situation may arise in which the civil unrest will greatly increase. If Kenyatta is re-elected, the protests would only increase in size and the outcomes may become much worse.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 8th, 2017, Kenyan electoral bodies announced Uhuru Kenyatta as the winner of the election. Immediately, the opposing candidate, Raila Odinga claimed the election was rigged and announced that he was the true winner. Due to the immense amount of controversy and seen irregularities surrounding the election, the Kenyan supreme court nullified the election results. Though an October 26th… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}