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Author Topic: A sad event, noted in the Journals today: Mark Agwonah  (Read 27026 times)
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« Reply To This #130 on: October 11, 2007, 02:34:46 PM »
Fantastic news! Let's hope it materializes and Mark's cousin will be able to step in and succeed at this business!
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« Reply To This #131 on: November 25, 2007, 11:59:13 PM »
I found this ... interesting but sobering news report on a BBC website tonight. 

"Kenyan police 'killed thousands'."

Notice that the deaths and disappearances were said to have taken place in "slum areas" through August 2007; Mark was killed in July 2007.  I can't stop wondering if he was one of those executed as part of this terror, even though he seems highly unlikely to have been a member of the Mungiki sect.  It is something to think about, and it will be interesting to hear from the AN:K staff about what Mama Mark's lawyers find out.

--Diane.
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« Reply To This #132 on: November 26, 2007, 12:49:04 AM »
Yes, this is awful.
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« Reply To This #133 on: November 26, 2007, 10:53:35 AM »
     I had seen articles on this awful police action too,  Sad and had wondered the same thing.  Apparently many young men of the Kikuyu tribal group, were targeted - even if they had no connection with the Mungiki sect.  Most of the killings were of people who lived in the Mathare slum area of Nairobi.
     
     I guess my first questions would be these: Was Mark a Kikuyu?  Did he live or work in the Mathare slum area of Nairobi?  Does anyone out there know the answers to these questions?
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« Reply To This #134 on: November 26, 2007, 12:33:45 PM »
Maybe we can get some answers to that from Irene at ANK...Diane, I guess you're the one with the closest connection... Smiley
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« Reply To This #135 on: March 06, 2009, 06:08:32 PM »
Don’t know if it’s because I’m a bit predisposed, (no, not just a bit, but a whole lot predisposed) today, to be thinking about Action Now: Kenya and our relationship with them, or if there really could be some tie-in between the substance of this article I just came across and what happened to Kiva entrepreneur, Mark Agonwah, but for whatever reason, this article made me think of Mark and his mom and AN:K.  I have no idea whether there is any relationship between his murder and what this article is all about.   Maybe, though.....

Kenyan death squads blamed for activists' deaths
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap_on_re_af/af_kenya_activists_slain
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« Reply To This #136 on: March 06, 2009, 06:55:40 PM »
Thank you for sharing, Jill...it speaks of a broader picture in Kenya... Sad
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« Reply To This #137 on: March 06, 2009, 08:01:23 PM »
That's pretty awful, Jill... and, yes, it does bring back the Mark story.  No Cry
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