My first experience of riot in kenya

As usual, I worked at HIV/AIDS clinic in Matahre slum today. I found some armies and police stand together, watching the pipe. After a while, I heard the noize, which is from the protest for water. Because the water project administration cut off the pipe accidently, it’s been a week since no water was supplied in the slum
Many people in the slum are either unemployment or very free, so they always have fight. There’s no exception this time. They had a conflict with the police. In order to stop it, the police threw the teargas to the crowd. I was just to leave the clinic and thus was in the crowd. Therefore, when the police threw the teargas to the crowd, I have to run with people. I don’t want to experience teargas at all. Once I tried to stop running, but the nurse from the clinic asked me to keep running. Surprisinly, I didn’t see any terror but happiness on peoples’ face. @@ She said this always happens in the slum and many people have fun with it.
People in the slum are treated as the chewing gun under the shoes, so they have to do something furious so that the government will take them seriously. There is no right for people in the slum….But as a foreigner, what’s my point of view of this incident? I don’t belong to each side. People in the slum always use violence to solve the problem and the Kenyan government ignores the poverty in the slum. Most of the people in the slum are unaware of self- developing. They tend to rely on donation and other’s help.
The rate of reported rape is increasing by 50 pct in the slum. Most of the victims are young girls. The reason is poverty, again. Knowing that Young girls are eager to have chips, the crminals seduced them with chips. Girls are easily to fall into the trap because they don’t have the money to buy chips but their desire to have chips is so strong.
Mungigi is one of the biggest gang in Kenya, whose ambition is to take over Kenyan governemt. They are successfully doing extention in country. They go to the high schools to recruit more young members. Mungigi is notorious for their barbarious crimes. They ask money from people. If people refuse to give or report it to the police, they will be killed. This is the terrorism in Kenya.
To know more information about the riot, please click the following link:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200707310817.html