The world according to Riff

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NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan military helicopters swooped over machete-wielding crowds terrorizing hundreds of refugees in a lakeside town on Tuesday against a backdrop of spiraling violence in the east African country.

Reuters reporters in Naivasha said two helicopters dive-bombed the crowd several times, firing what police said were rubber bullets at a mob of about 600 people brandishing machetes and clubs at members of another tribeThe incident came as police trucks prepared to evacuate about 300 Luo refugees to safety from the mainly Kikuyu crowd.

The helicopter attack drove the Kikuyu crowd back.

Earlier, fresh ethnic violence broke out in Nairobi's Kibera slum after a Kenyan opposition politician was killed at his Nairobi home in the early hours.

Melitus Were, a newly elected member of parliament for Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM, was shot twice in the head as he reached the gate of his house shortly after midnight.

Kibaki, in his statement, condemned Were's killing as "a heinous crime" that would be swiftly investigated.

But an ODM spokesman said, without offering evidence, that Were may have been targeted by political foes.

Government officials did not immediately comment.

Hours after Were's death, rival ethnic gangs began fighting in Nairobi's Kibera slum, near where he was shot.

A Reuters witness saw seven corpses, some with cuts on the head and neck. One of them lay in agony on the ground after being forcibly circumcised, before dying

(JESUS H. CHRIST!!!)  And people wig out here, about  fricken illegal aliens getting popped by an old man after a breaking and entry of a neibors house..........and where is Brother "al" and brother "jessie" and their outrage on this..........none........ no white people to blame, and capitalize on........Maybe they can go there to the motherland and set them straight.........Doubt it.....riff