Two weeks after the deadly shooting on the Nairobi shopping
centre Kenya’s port of Mombasa still has high tension. Thursday night the
cleric Ibrahim “Rogo” Omar and three other people were shot dead on their drive
home in Mombasa. Mr. Rogo allegedly had connects with al-Shabab and although
the allegations were denied some Muslims blame the Kenyan security forces for
his death. The killing of Mr. Omar has similarities of Aboud Rogo Mohammed
which starts days of rioting by Muslims in Mombasa last year.
All the
trouble began after Friday prayers when protesters clashed with police and
started lighting bonfires and stoning cars. Three people died of stab wounds
and at least one who died in the hospital had been shot. Warning shots and tear
gas were fired in the air to try and calm down demonstrators. Mombasa city
police Chief Kipkemoi Rop said “24 people had been detained, as the force would
not tolerate unruly youth taking over the town.” The street of Masjid Musa
Mosque which is the same street as the Salvation Army church has been known to
attract some radical followers says correspondents. Muslim cleric known as
Makaburi said “police were behind the killings of Mr. Omar and others and that
they should tell the truth about Westgate, not kill innocent Muslims in Mombasa.”
My view on
this tragedy is that killing innocent people is horrible and wrong. An event
that happened two weeks earlier still has a way of getting victims and people
still dying because of it. Something within their government is has people
talking and blaming them for all these deaths. Showing that the people of Kenya
really need to come together and figure out responsible what is the root of all
the killings and why everything is happening.
Anne Soy, . N.p..
Web. 4 Oct 2013. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24398548>.
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