At first everything went very peacefully. Wreaths and flowers were laid, candles were lit and prayed. Then, in almost all major cities of the country, representatives of Generation Z said that the groups, Vuvuzlas and the national flag opposed them against recent violent attacks by the police. Just two weeks ago, the arrested activist and blogger were beaten to death in the police cell under the command of Vice -Police.
The Kenya security device was prepared for protests on the anniversary, the government district in the capital Nairobi sealed and built road blocks throughout the country to stop the demonstrators. However, during the morning so many people were united throughout the country that police units were almost overloaded with a clean mass of young people.
Around noon, Kenyan communication ordered all the radio and television channels to stop live broadcasts. When many media did not follow this agreement, the government turned off television formations and radio frequencies throughout the country. This even more heated the anger of the crowd against the government. Then the protesters set fire to police cars, plundered supermarkets and moved to police guards in large quantities. In addition to the capital, some of them grew up in fire.
The crowd turns off the presidential palace
The construction of the telecommunication department and even the places of the president guarded by the soldiers also tried to storm the applied crowd. But President William Ruto did not stay in Nairobi at all, but took part in the funeral service in the coastal region of Kilifi. “We should not destroy the world with protests, because we do not have another country where we can go when everything is broken,” he warned. “We are obliged to make our country safe,” Ruto said in his speech in Kilifi. The crowd in Nairobi ultimately turned in front of the presidential place.
Generation Z protests are influenced far beyond the borders of Kenya
According to Kenya, the Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International on Wednesday evening, more than a hundred people with gunshot wounds were accepted in hospitals – some of them are in mortal danger. Accordingly, the number of dead may increase. “Most of them were killed by the police,” said Irung Houton, director of Amnesty International in Kenya. Among the injuries are also police and journalists.
The Association of Lawyers Kenya filed an urgent application against the disconnection of the media during the day. In the evening, the high court in Nairobi ultimately ordered the authorities to immediately allow the transmission of the media.
In the end, this is a small victory for democracy and youth in Kenya.
Because the protests of the generation Z have influence far beyond the borders of the national borders. Throughout Africa, young people are pursuing what is currently happening in Kenya. The country has always been considered free and more democratic than the surrounding neighboring countries, where violence in the police is an order of the day.
