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Opposition lawmaker killed in Kenya (AP)

The coffin of Zachariah Kimani Kariithi, of the Kikuyu tribe, is carried to a grave outside Limuru, near Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday Jan. 31 2008. Kariithi was killed by gunfire during post election violence. Hundreds of Kikuyus have been killed, and members of the group account for more than half of the 300,000 chased from their homes, most in the Rift Valley. Kikuyus also have been on the attack. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - A policeman gunned down an opposition lawmaker Thursday in an attack officials described as a crime of passion. Protesters burned houses in revenge, convinced it was an assassination in a nation gripped by ethnic fighting since a disputed election.

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