[{"command":"settings","settings":{"pluralDelimiter":"\u0003","suppressDeprecationErrors":true,"ajaxPageState":{"libraries":"views\/views.ajax,views\/views.module","theme":"hrw_design","theme_token":null},"ajaxTrustedUrl":[],"views":{"ajax_path":"\/views\/ajax","ajaxViews":{"views_dom_id:blog_live_feed__blog_body_block__305450__en":{"view_name":"blog_live_feed","view_display_id":"blog_body_block","view_args":"305450","view_path":"\/blog\/content\/305450","view_base_path":null,"view_dom_id":"blog_live_feed__blog_body_block__305450__en","pager_element":0}}},"user":{"uid":0,"permissionsHash":"0ae5601d8790ff50fca3cf23b9ac9170285f2f75823ebdc8d9cc054bc03a679b"}},"merge":true},{"command":"add_css","data":"\u003Clink rel=\u0022stylesheet\u0022 media=\u0022all\u0022 href=\u0022\/sites\/default\/files\/css\/css_rT06N1hzNwWZvlauEGw5ZNFVKBrR23ibx56HC8Lyx4M.css\u0022 \/\u003E\n"},{"command":"add_js","selector":"body","data":[{"src":"\/sites\/default\/files\/js\/js_svkrpusmrjSaaV8heRnsa8-TbrEsMLumxMQD8vstdR8.js"}]},{"command":"insert","method":"replaceWith","selector":".js-view-dom-id-blog_live_feed__blog_body_block__305450__en","data":"\u003Cdiv class=\u0022js-view-dom-id-blog_live_feed__blog_body_block__305450__en\u0022\u003E\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n \u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n \u003Cdiv class=\u0022blog-block__content__description rich-text pt-6 mb:pt-10 mx-auto\u0022\u003E\n \u003Cp\u003EIn the wake of 2007 elections, Human Rights Watch published \u003Cem\u003EBallots to Bullets\u003C\/em\u003E, a report that documented the main patterns of organized political violence that engulfed the country that year. Two months of bloodshed left over 1,000 dead and up to 650,000 people displaced. Police use of excessive force against protestors, and ethnic-based killings and reprisals by supporters aligned to both the ruling and opposition parties marked the post-election period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the time, it was clear that the ethnic divisions laid bare in the aftermath of the 2007 elections had deep roots into Kenya\u2019s history. No Kenyan government had yet made a good-faith effort to address long simmering grievances over land that persisted since independence. High-ranking politicians had consistently been implicated in organizing political violence since the 1990s but had never been brought to book and continued to operate with impunity. Widespread failures of governance at the core of the explosive anger were exposed in the wake of the election fraud. As elections approach in August, have the various reforms addressed the root causes of the violence?\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThe full Ballots to Bullets report can be accessed here: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/kenya0308web.pdf\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.hrw.org\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/kenya0308web.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022twitter-tweet\u0022 data-lang=\u0022fr\u0022\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003EWith elections in August, rereading \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/hrw\u0022\u003E@hrw\u003C\/a\u003E report on Kenya\u0027s \u002707-08 violence. Impunity, corruption, land grievances... \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/s0q0FjTa6G\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/t.co\/s0q0FjTa6G\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/vNefrPZYD4\u0022\u003Epic.twitter.com\/vNefrPZYD4\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u2014 Maria Burnett (@MariaHRWAfrica) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/MariaHRWAfrica\/status\/876905001611923456\u0022\u003E19 juin 2017\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u003Cscript async=\u0022\u0022 src=\u0022\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]