International community must prosecute the killers in Kenya

We all know African will eventually have her own type of democracy. It will be hard for African to establish their version democracy, since the kind of democracy the west wants it not going to work for Africa. If you win in Africa and the west do not like you, like the case of Mugabe or Mwai Kibaki of Kenya. The west will cry foul and rigged election. African needs to challenges the west to except the African democry which is very infancy and of different version just like in Europe. African democracy does not have to be an image of the west. West do need take a hard look at our political institutions, out laws and our philosophies that are too often taken for granted as the way-things-must-be as defined by west.

It’s funny and true; I read a story is told of a U.S. citizen chiding the former president of Tanzania, Julius K. Nyerere, about the fact that Tanzania had only one political party. Nyerere is said to have responded: "Well, in the United States, you, too, have only one political party, but with your customary extravagance you have created two versions of that one party.
Many Africans consider the Western model of political democracy to be extremely narrow and even alien to African cultures. "Democracy is not merely the right to vote and seize power," the Rev. Jose Belo Chipenda, General Secretary, All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) has said. "It is about a whole complex of rights and duties which citizens must exercise if a government is to be open, accountable, and participatory." Africans like Chipenda find that Western-style democracy "places people into artificial antagonistic boxes, turns friends into enemies, and aims at arousing unnecessary competition. In west you have luxury to do this, since economy factors do allow.
In the case of Kenya, since the Kibaki government has done such a great job, where the economy was growing at the rate 6%, the opposition had to come up with garbage type of politics, e.g. “Majimba” which means that every ethnics has to go back to where the majority of that group came from, the “Sheria” law which means that where the majority are Muslims, then the Islam law applies. They also incited other ethnics groups against each others claiming the other groups got more from the government than the others, where in some cases it is true, but not even this case is true for 0.5%, mind you this is the same case even in the west where big corporation do not pay taxes.
When all this was going on, the west and especially the American ambassador was on the side line as a sheer lender and encouraging this to happen. We here in states knew this was going to happen, since the opposition campaign advisor was Dick Morris the famous for inflating polls. This was clearly ignorant of the west. Again as long as their puppet is winning, then of course minimal democracy criteria are met as they define it. Like the case of Kenya, Egypt, Uganda, Tanzania Saudi and Jordan.
Democratic governance and respect for human rights are the foundations for political and social stability and economic progress no matter what. They are also intrinsic to the goal of human development. I believe Kibaki won the elections, and all grievances should have been taken to court of law like the case Gore. We did not ask Gore to share power with Bush! West therefore should not apply double standard like in Kenya, where they supported people who advocated violence and killed people and burned their houses. Today, the struggle of Africa's people for democracy and human rights continues since the west has refused to be fair just. As in the past, international support and fairness can play an important role for true democracy. West should have encouraged the opposition to go to court. Today nobody is talking about who organized the killing Kenya. We know these same people are going to be in the next government as very senior minister. We demand the international community to prosecute these people. We demand their names to be exposed and send to Hague. We also demand the west to measure democracy and justice with one yard stick.
James Gatihi