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A woman is consoled after seeing the bodies of relatives on Jan. 10, 2013 following an overnight attack on the village of Kibusu in the Tana River region of Kenya.
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Security officers walk away as a man mourns next to the bodies of his wife and a daughter who were gunned down outside their house as they attempted to escape, in Kibusu on Jan. 10, 2013.
Reuters reports — Ten people were killed on Thursday when armed raiders torched more than a dozen houses in Kenya's Tana River area, the Red Cross said, violence police say is linked to upcoming elections.
Five children and two women were among the dead. One child lay dead in the dirt still wearing his school backpack, Reuters television footage showed.
Siegfried Modola / Reuters
Residents bury a relative who was killed during the attack in Kibusu village on Jan. 10, 2013.
Raiders from the Orma tribe - semi-nomadic cattle-herders - struck the Pokomo village of Kibisu a day after Pokomo farmers wielding guns, machetes and arrows killed several Ormas in a nearby settlement.
The raid was the latest in a series of tit-for-tat killings that are ostensibly part of a longstanding grazing land and water dispute between two tribes.
On Wednesday, however, police said several politicians, business people and local leaders were still funding the violence, in which 100 people were killed in August. Read the full story.
Siegfried Modola / Reuters
A man mourns as he attends the burial of a relative killed in Kibusu on Jan. 10, 2013.
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A woman stands in the remains of a burnt house in Kibusu on Jan. 10, 2013.
Ivan Lieman / AFP - Getty Images
A man is consoled after seeing the bodies of relatives in Kibusu on Jan. 10, 2013.
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Seems the whole world is a dangerous place. My heart goes out to the children of the world that suffer at evil's hands.
The cycle of hatred, violence and death cannot be stopped, until someone has the courage to forgive and let go.It is so easy to let the emotional side of our humanity take over and strike out.In the belief that somehow it will justify what we have suffered, by making someone else pay for what we have had taken away from us. But the truth is, nothing can fill the emptiness, the pain cannot be reduced, by causing another to feel the same.
Those who have lost loved ones, whether to violence, accident or other means, fully know, there is nothing which will bring back their loved ones. However, those who have lost loved ones to acts of murder or someone else, have a target with which to focus their anger.It is completely understandable to seek out, to strike back in rage, hoping it will ease the incredible pain one feels. But in the end, nothing has changed.
By causing more innocent people to die, the chain of violence just spreads, and becomes ever larger.Only when a civilized system, where those who have committed the offense, and are held accountable, is there the chance for violence and other innocent victims, to stop.
In the case of this continued fighting and dispute between these two tribes, it is the funding which is so horrible. Truly, those who are benefiting from it, who are most accountable. They need to be brought to justice, so that the cycle stops. Sadly, this just is not likely to happen.For this is exactly what happens, even in large countries. Which send forth the young folks to battle, for political reasons, while those leaders sit back, beyond accountability. The war, over resources or some other issue.While relatives wait anxiously for word of who lives or dies.
I just feel sick to my stomach about these killings. Absolutely sick. What good is done by murdering children, women? There is simply just madness going on. Who ever did this, is a monster. They will pay for such things in the end.Any human being, who has half a brain knows in their heart you don't kill children for any reason.All over land, water. There is a law decreed, they who live by the sword, shall die by it. I truly have no doubt, those who did such a horrible deed, they will pay for it will their lives eventually.