Kenyan Intelligence Chief to Reveal Sponsors of Post-Election Skirmishes

Kenya’s National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) has said it will provide the names of individuals it says sponsored the post-election violence that killed thousands in the aftermath of the country’s disputed December 2007 presidential election. NSIS Director-general Michael Gichangi told a commission of inquiry Monday that he would divulge the names - in confidence - of people who organized oath-takings, stirred up ethnocentric sentiments and funded killings and destruction of property. Over 1500 Kenyans died and 350,000 others were displaced before President Mwai Kibaki and Opposition leader Raila Odinga agreed to share power in a unity government. [PE]