The 2007 election in Kenya provoked a lot of violence. President Mwai Kibaki won the election on December 27, 2007. Supporters of Raila Odinga, his opponent, accused them of cheating and manipulating the election. There were violent rampages going on in Odinga's home town which resulted in police shooting many people. What irked a lot of Kenyans and turned more violence towards the police, was that the they shot demonstrators right in front of TV cameras. This all happened from the end of election, December 27, 2007 to February 28, 2008. Eight hundred to one thousand five-hundred were killed, with over about 200 times that displaced. A lot of the violence continued in the Rift Valley. There is usually violence after elections in Kenya, but this election was different. Mainly because Kibaki and Odinga were such good rivals and Odinga was very popular, yet he still lost. A quote from Gwen Thompkins, and NPR reporter that was in a western Kenyan town during a short act of violence interviewed people from Kenya, and resulted with the assumption that this election violence is worse because in the past elections, the violence was gone when the election ended. But this time, two years ago, "this is a totally different situation in the sense that the election has happened, the results announced, the president has taken the oath of office, and yet the country remains at a standstill."This all happened from the end of election, December 27, 2007 to February 28, 2008.
The 2007 election in Kenya provoked a lot of violence. President Mwai Kibaki won the election on December 27, 2007. Supporters of Raila Odinga, his opponent, accused them of cheating and manipulating the election. There were violent rampages going on in Odinga's home town which resulted in police shooting many people. What irked a lot of Kenyans and turned more violence towards the police, was that the they shot demonstrators right in front of TV cameras. This all happened from the end of election, December 27, 2007 to February 28, 2008. Eight hundred to one thousand five-hundred were killed, with over about 200 times that displaced. A lot of the violence continued in the Rift Valley. There is usually violence after elections in Kenya, but this election was different. Mainly because Kibaki and Odinga were such good rivals and Odinga was very popular, yet he still lost. A quote from Gwen Thompkins, and NPR reporter that was in a western Kenyan town during a short act of violence interviewed people from Kenya, and resulted with the assumption that this election violence is worse because in the past elections, the violence was gone when the election ended. But this time, two years ago, "this is a totally different situation in the sense that the election has happened, the results announced, the president has taken the oath of office, and yet the country remains at a standstill." This all happened from the end of election, December 27, 2007 to February 28, 2008.