Kenyan Rebels Attack Kenyan Police Station

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Kenya separatists attempt gun theft

December 10 2012 at 08:00pm
By Reuters
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Mombasa, Kenya - Sixty men armed with machetes, clubs and bows and arrows tried and failed to steal guns from a police station in Mombasa, in the biggest attack planned by separatists seeking independence for Kenya's Indian Ocean coastal strip, police said on Monday.

Police intercepted the men on their way to the station. They said they belonged to the secessionist Mombasa Republic Council (MRC), an accusation rejected by its leaders, and that three separatists were later killed in a raid on a MRC hideout.

With a national election due next year, the first since a disputed 2007 vote, police say they are concerned about rising violence by the MRC, campaigning for secession in the trade hub and popular tourist destination.

Local police chief Julius Wanjohi said police believed the men involved in the failed attack were planning to steal their guns. “They may have been...planning to cause trouble ahead of the elections, but they had better not try it because we are prepared for them.”

Police said four men arrested early on Monday admitted to being MRC members and led authorities to a hideout where they believed the MRC chairman was based.

“When we got there, we were attacked by arrows and stones from unknown people who were on top of the building. We shot back killing three,” Wanjohi said.

A crackdown against the MRC by the Kenyan government has seen most of its leaders arraigned in court over the past few months.

The MRC denied involvement in the planned raid on the police station and distanced itself from those involved.

“We have told our members to be calm, and warned them that if they engaged in any unlawful activities, they will be on their own,” Randu Nzai Ruwa, the MRC secretary, told Reuters. - Reuters

[Rightwing]

WTF?? they want libarate Mombasa and have full independent with bows and arrows

[AbdiWahab252]

Rightwing,

They are a baby jabhad.

[Rightwing]

Rightwing,

They are a baby jabhad.

I though mombasa was mixed race city (half arab half balck)
Who are those hunters armied with arrows and bows?

[Areesa]

People fighting with Arrows and Bows in 2012?

[Rightwing]

People fighting with Arrows and Bows in 2012?

yeah, Arrows and Bows to liberate their country...WARYAA ILAAHAY YAQAAN

secessionist Mombasa Republic Council (MRC)

[AbdiWahab252]

Rightwing,

If we used bows, arrows and machetes, the numbers who would have died would have been much less. MRC represents a coastal faction seeking to dissolve the treaty between the Sultan of Zanzibar and the British which added the coast to the British kenyan.

Areesa,

Arrows are better than bullets and require skill. Imagine a ARROW DRIVE BY

[Rightwing]

Rightwing,

If we used bows, arrows and machetes, the numbers who would have died would have been much less. MRC represents a coastal faction seeking to dissolve the treaty between the Sultan of Zanzibar and the British which added the coast to the British kenyan.

Areesa,

Arrows are better than bullets and require skill. Imagine a ARROW DRIVE BY

Abdi
Are MRC bajuni ethnicity?

[AbdiWahab252]

RW,

Swahili, Giriama, Arabs, Muwalads, Bajuni etc. Its a mix.

[Rightwing]

This is what I found:
The Mijikenda or Nyika tribe is a Kenyan coastal Bantu tribe that consists of nine closely related sub-tribes.

Among the nine Mijikenda sub-tribes, the Giriama and the Digo are the most well known, most populous, and therefore, most dominant along the Kenyan coast. The other seven sub-tribes are the Chonyi, Duruma, Jibana, Kambe, Kauma, Rabai and Ribe. It's very common for other Kenyan tribes to refer to all Mijikenda people simply as Giriama.



http://www.kenya-information-guide.com/ ... tribe.html

[AbdiWahab252]

Rightwing,

Yep, Utanga was in Giriama land.

[Rightwing]

Rightwing,

Yep, Utanga was in Giriama land.

Utanga miyaanay ahayn halkii DAROODKU caano boodhaha ku cabay?

[DayaxJeclee]

fantastic news.