ORAC
29th Jan 2008, 13:31
A new type of air-to-ground weapon - rubber bullets.... :hmm:
sarcasm aside, it seems to be degenerating rapidly into civil war. Not sure if anyone can do anything to stop it.
Torygraph: Army helicopters open fire in Kenya violence (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=VG3VHCM5L2QZHQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/29/wkenya329.xml)
Two Kenyan military helicopters have opened fired above a crowd threatening members of the Luo tribe sheltering at a police post in the tourist town of Naivasha.
"The helicopters are dive-bombing the crowd and firing their guns," Reuters reporter David Lewis said from the scene, as the machine guns thundered out what police said were rubber bullets.
The helicopters dived down towards a crowd of more than 600 people brandishing machetes and clubs three or four times as two police trucks prepared to evacuate the displaced Luos to safety.
The helicopters also opened fire elsewhere in the Rift Valley town. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties.......
sarcasm aside, it seems to be degenerating rapidly into civil war. Not sure if anyone can do anything to stop it.
Torygraph: Army helicopters open fire in Kenya violence (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=VG3VHCM5L2QZHQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/29/wkenya329.xml)
Two Kenyan military helicopters have opened fired above a crowd threatening members of the Luo tribe sheltering at a police post in the tourist town of Naivasha.
"The helicopters are dive-bombing the crowd and firing their guns," Reuters reporter David Lewis said from the scene, as the machine guns thundered out what police said were rubber bullets.
The helicopters dived down towards a crowd of more than 600 people brandishing machetes and clubs three or four times as two police trucks prepared to evacuate the displaced Luos to safety.
The helicopters also opened fire elsewhere in the Rift Valley town. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties.......