This is a follow up to the newspaper article that I sent to you.  Let me help you read between the lines, so to speak.  After listening to stories of victims and talking to others, it seems very true what the reporter reported one person say.  The elections were just an excuse for evicting people of the Kikuyu tribe from this area. This was very well planned by the Kalenjin Tribal leaders!

The elections took place on 27^th Dec., a Thursday.  Friday and Saturday, there were noted groups of young men in town from the outside.  Sunday morning, while some friends of ours, (their son goes to school with Kirsten and Ruth) while they were in church, their house was set on fire.  They lost everything. 

 

Sunday evening, the election results were announced.  Immediately, a woman told us from one of the estates here in town, there were 100 youth there to burn the house.  We talked to a person outside of town who has a house on the main road, he said that within minutes, youths came in a truck and set up a roadblock.  They were not local youth.  Roadblocks were set up very quickly on all the major roads leading to and from Eldoret.  We hear on the main road to Nairobi, they took out a bridge and made trenches in the road so that no traffic could go on the road.

 

We also hear on Monday, very early in the morning, young men warriors of a tribe about 60 – 80 Km (40 – 50 miles) from here we noted as coming into town, fully equipped for war.  They were used to kill and burn houses.  A lot of the people said that their houses were burned by outsiders.  One lady told us that it was her husbands best friend (they Kikluyu and the best friend a Kalenjin) who burned their house.  How can you come back when your best friend burns your house!

 

Lastly, the report says they wanted to destroy the town.  We hear the plan was to drive all the Kikuyus to town and then come and finish them off in town.  Praise the Lord, He heard your prayers along with ours and the peoples and prevented this from happening. 

 

Eldoret will never be the same!  We will never be the same!  The Kalenjin tribal leaders have brought down a Big Curse on themselves. 

 

Thanks for listening, I needed someone to listen.  Our hearts are breaking, keep us in prayers! 

In Service to Christ,

Keith

 

Now the big problem is that young men are looting houses of those who people who left.  So, even if you weren’t burned out, you still may have nothing when you go home.  At Saroiyot, I was told young men come and tell the people we are going to burn you out tonight.  So the people sleep in the bush.  Then they come and steal from the house.