Western powers: Violence in Kenya and other parts of Africa is good for business

Edited by Peggy Chan

Kenya's bloody tribal warfare shows no signs of abating. In all, about 900 Kenyans have now been killed in the violence that followed the Dec. 27 election. More than a quarter of a million more Kenyans have fled their homes.

Kikiyus and Luos who continue to be marginalized in the post-colonial hangover conditions of Kenya continue to slaughter each other with machetes and bows and arrows, and to burn each other's homes, cars and churches, while it seems to be politics as usual for President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga.

The barbarity in Kenya, that has occurred in other parts of Africa in the forms of genocide in Rwanda, and in the Sudan, as well as continued poverty, are the result of the calculated negligence of eugenics inspired Western elite driven policies.

While the Africans perish in cultures of violence created from neo-colonial World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) manipulations of African economic development, the U.S. led Western political-industrial-military axis can pursue exploitative policies directed at grabbing African resources. These Western interests seek to continue to grab African raw materials unchallenged by African populations in a state of such disarray.

Western capitalism unfortunately embraces an elite mentality that seeks to exploit such conditions of violence, war, and other tragedies. Indeed, a milieu of perpetual peace does not support the predatory interests of elites who seek to commercial profit from the manufacturing and sale of armaments and related products. Such elites therefore demand the instigation and perpetuation of violent conflict.

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