{"id":199,"date":"2009-04-21T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T10:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.africanews.it\/english\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-04-21T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T10:39:43","slug":"kenya-24-killed-for-money-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/kenya-24-killed-for-money-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 24 killed for money extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>24 people have been killed because of the <strong>fighting<\/strong> between <strong>villagers<\/strong> and <strong>Mungiki<\/strong> people, members of a sect, in central Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The residents of a village near the central Kenyan town of <strong>Karatina<\/strong>&nbsp; \u2013 signonsandiego.com reports \u2013  fought members of Mungiki because they have been extorting money from them, said Charles Owino, the deputy police spokesman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I know is that majority of the dead are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mungiki\"><strong>Mungiki<\/strong><\/a> members,&#8221; Owino told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Although at first the <strong>Police<\/strong> took the side of the Mungiki people, after a while the officers started lynching the Mungiki. According to a witness, who asked to remain anonymous afraid of reprisals, it is not known why the Police stopped supporting the Mungiki.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/apr\/21\/af-kenya-banned-sect-042109\/?world\">signonsandiego.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=640\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 people have been killed because of the fighting between villagers and Mungiki people, members of a sect, in central Kenya. &#8220;The residents of a village near the central Kenyan town of Karatina&nbsp; \u2013 signonsandiego.com reports \u2013 fought members of Mungiki because they have been extorting money from them, said Charles Owino, the deputy police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}