All traffic on the main E6 highway through the scenic valley of Gudbrandsdalen came to a standstill Thursday afternoon, when a German couple refused to move their car and trailer after a minor traffic accident.

Traffic stood still for more than a half-hour. PHOTO: Tor Jostein S�rlie/Gudbrandsd�len Dagningen

Traffic was backed up several hundred meters for at least a half-hour because the tourists’ trailer blocked the road.

They’d had a minor collision with a Swedish truck near the entrance to a gas station at Hundorp, in S�r-Fron township. No one was injured, and witnesses said the damage to the German’s trailer was hardly visible.

Nonetheless, the woman marched into the station and demanded that workers there call police. She was told it wasn’t necessary to call police because no one was injured, and that the couple should simply drive into the station’s parking area and complete an accident claim form with the driver of the truck.

The couple wouldn’t budge, however, saying that in Germany, drivers aren’t supposed to move vehicles involved in accidents until police arrive.

The German woman also ordered the Swedish truck driver to stay where he was. Rather than fight with her, the Swede simply sat in the cab of his truck to await developments.

Police finally arrived, only because the traffic situation got worse and worse and they feared altercation as tempers grew short. The police officer herself had to park the patrol car several hundred meters away, because of the traffic back-up.

“The couple stood out in the road when I came walking up,” Constable Ingeborg Skirbekk told Aftenposten.no.

She confirmed that damage to the trailer was minimal. The Germans moved their car and trailer as soon as the police told them to, and traffic started moving again.

By Anders Nordstoga and Nina Berglund

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The petition

Presumption of guilt is unfair and even immoral because it allows the strategic targeting of any individual, since it’s often difficult to firmly establish proof of innocence

Why is it so easy to speak the language of cruelty? According to the report by standard, 200 people, mostly innocent youth have been slaughtered by police without any whatsoever justice applied. Who is giving orders for Kenyans to murdered without trial?
Why is Kenya so cruel? Violence can never win apart from putting a stop to some lives on earth and not necessarily terminating ideas of those people.
If The kenyan homeland security thinks that Mungiki is a group of primitive extortioners,who in some barbaric ways kills innocent people why don’t they try to teach them the language of a civilized society owing to the fact that this people are kenyans and Kenya for that matter has done very little to teach it’s people about fundamental human rights,like for instance freedom of Expressive Associations and religion.
why allow the killing of your own citizens?At home and Internationally, the act of the Kenyan police is as equally primitive or even more than than that of those poor un educated Mungiki fellows.
The kenyan Police is supposed to keep law and order and not create chaos and and bloodshed.
Kenyans in Diaspora are demanding that the president intervene and stop these unnecessary bloodshed.
All Kenyans have the right to express themselves but if anyone breaks any law of Kenya, then that particular person should be presented before the court of law of Kenya and not to be tortured of killed at site.

Our country is no longer a colonial protectorate where some people who were perceived to be dangerous were systematically killed at site.
STOP KILLING MUNGIKI MEMBERS!! PROSECUTE THEM BEFORE THE LAW! HOW CAN YOU SENTENCE PEOPLE TO DEATH TO BE SHOT IN PUBLIC BEFORE THEY ARE PROVEN GUILTY IN THE 2007?
Please Kenya, stop making yourself so primitive.

How can a civilized sovereign country accept the killing of suspected Mungiki members if at all they are members without having them tried before the court of Kenya?

We are faced with a calamity of no measure. The morals of our society have diminished tremendously. Human rights are violated in broad day light
This must be stopped.! Mungiki members have the rights of human beings like any other person. If they have been involved in terror activities, the long hand of Kenya must put them to jail and administer legal punishment according to the laws of Kenya.
We cannot go on killing our fellow countrymen in such barbaric manner. Where are all the moral values of the old African spirit? Why do you accept to be turned into a beast?

The police involved in this shooting, despite the usual explanation of being under orders from “above” must really stop and think first before they trigger next time. Ask yourself why you must terminate another persons life without any reason.
Even if you had all reason to kill some one, which in real sense NO one has apart from God, will you just do it they way you kill those who are perceived to be Mungiki members? If you think Mungiki members are primitive, think twice and look at your hand next time you pull that trigger!!
STOP KILLING MUNGIKI MEMBERS!! PROSECUTE THEM BEFORE THE LAW! HOW CAN YOU SENTENCE PEOPLE TO DEATH TO BE SHOT IN PUBLIC BEFORE THEY ARE PROVEN GUILTY IN THE 2007?

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Readers’ talk!

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Ngugu Banza,

Tafadhali, usi ni ite Otura, mimi ni Achuth Oracha, Ja-Nyando kamili. Kwani Otura mpia ame simama Nyando. Wakati ingine wana ni ita Jakanyadhiang’ alias Odhiambo, sasa wana ni ita Otura. Kwani wewe ni mfwazi wake ?

Achuth Oracha,

Nyando District.

Edward Bansa <eddybansa@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Okoth Otura allias “Achuth Oracha”

You are confusing us about your location, how do you talk of “hapa ulaya” and then sign off with Nyando District? Are you always this confused? It will be very difficult to tell the difference between you and Miguna Miguna. Looks like two disoriented� minds� fight each other.�

Edward Bansa

Achuth Oracha <achuthoracha@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Wadugu na wadada !�Ina onekana�hawa viogosi wame tupa Raila007 pamoja na ODMK-USA ?�Kwani huyu�Wakili ame ishiwa mapema sana hasibwi paka ame rudi kuomba�charge yale Raila ali wacha hapa ulaya ?

Nyando iko moto sana, tena wanaume wana senti nyingi, wakati u,�Eng�Jack Apollo Owuor na Eng Nyamuga wako mbele, jusi uyu wakili ali fukuswa Ahero “ONGE YWAYO”

Kwanini aja aomba fedha Canada�mahali anapohisi ?�Kwani wana windana na Mkasisi Otura bado, hama yule mkisii Matunda Nyachama wame fukusa yeye uko Toronto ?

Tafadhi muse aribi fadha yenu, uyu wakili alise sindwa jana, afadhali mudhurie Bana-Kadori-Masanga ya mwanyekiti Mweshemiwa Ben Odotte,agalau muta�chiaza benga.

Who has ditch who ?�Did Raila ditched these group or they have ditch Raila for Miguna for Nyando instead of Raila for President ?�

Achuth Oracha,

Nyando District.

stephen ochola <ocholasteve@msn.com> wrote:

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To:��jambo@publiceyesite.org
Subject:��[Jambo] AN EVENING WITH MIGUNA MIGUNA
Date:��Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:54:31 -0400

An Evening with Miguna Miguna

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NYANDO PEOPLE IN THE DIASPORA TOGETHER WITH FRIENDS OF MIGUNA MIGUNA, CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO AN EVENING WITH MIGUNA MIGUNA IN MONROE, NEW YORK ON SATURDAY AUGUST 4, 2007 AT 6.00PM.�

Miguna Miguna is a Barrister & Solicitor; Mediator & ADR Consultant; political analyst; prolific commentator on social, cultural and political issues; and a published author.

MIGUNA IS CURRENTLY�A�CANDIDATE FOR THE NYANDO PARLIAMENTARY SEAT AND AN IMPORTANT PLAYER IN THE ODM-K CAMPAIGN TO UNSEAT KIBAKI.

MIGUNA CAME TO THE NATIONAL LIME LIGHT DURING THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR KENYA’S 2^ND LIBERATION WHEN HE WAS ABDUCTED AND DETAINED INCOMMUNICADO WITHOUT TRIAL BY THE MOI/KANU REGIME. HE WAS THEN A STUDENT LEADER�AT THE NAIROBI UNIVERSITY.

MIGUNA CHAIRED THE COMMITTEE FOR DEMOCRACY IN KENYA (CDK) – AN INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRACY GROUP – AT THE HEIGHT OF THE MOI/KANU DICTATORSHIP. HE WAS PART AND PARCEL OF THE STRUGGLES THAT CULMINATED IN THE REPEAL OF SECTION 2A OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE “SECOND LIBERATION.”

TODAY, MIGUNA IS�STILL A LEADER, A�STRONG VOICE� FOR CHANGE AND� AN ACTIVIST IN�THE MOVEMENT FOR THE 3RD LIBERATION OF KENYA.

MIGUNA WILL BE GIVING US AN UPDATE ON THE� STATUS OF THE MOVEMENT�FOR CHANGE IN KENYA AND�PROVIDING AN�INSIGHT�AS TO HOW�THE ODM-K NOMINEE�FOR PRESIDENT OF KENYA IN 2008 WILL BE DETERMINED.

MIGUNA WILL ALSO BE SEEKING OUR FINANCIAL AND MORAL SUPPORT IN HIS BID TO�CAPTURE THE NYANDO SEAT.

THE PEOPLE OF NYANDO AND FRIENDS OF MIGUNA BELIEVE THAT KENYA NEED HIS STRONG�AND UNCOMPROMISED VOICE IN THE PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT TO�ADDRESS�BOTH NATIONAL ISSUES AND ISSUES THAT AFFECT NYANDO CONSTITUENCY IN PARTICULAR.��

PLEASE BRING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS SO THAT YOU CAN HEAR MIGUNA’S LEGENDARY�SPEECHES, ASK QUESTIONS, AND��DONATE TOWARDS HIS CAMPAIGN.

FOR MORE ON MIGUNA�MIGUNA, PLEASE VISIT www.migunamiguna.com

Guests will include community leaders,�members of ODMK-USA, Friends of Raila and Raila for President campaign�operators.�To address the audience will be:

1. The former Ugandan Ambassador to the United Nations, DR.�Olara Otunnu;

2. Mr Titus Magara;

3. Dr Odeyo Ayaga;

4.Ms. Anne Agengo;

5.Mr John Achoka;

6. Dr Okumu Walter;

7. Mr Obell Nyanja;

8. Dr Sam Oyugi;

9. Dr George Omburo;

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10.The Chair of�Youth Movement ( Young Turks) Mr Tabu Addikah.�

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The function will�be at Grace Episcopal Church at 1 Forest Avenue, Monroe NY 10950.

DIRECTION TO THE HALL WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:
(A) FROM: Both North/South of NY Thruways take exit 16(Harriman Exit) after the toll stay on 17W to Exit 130, take RT208 S. Go thru 3 traffic lights, you will see two Mobil Gas stations on your right (the lights maybe off on one of the gas stations) and that road is called North Main street, go 1/4 mile and look for Grace Episcopal Church on your left. The address is 1 Forrester Ave Monroe, NY 10950, off North Main street, close to North Main street Elementary school! .

FROM: Both Garden Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike North, take exits 163 and 64A respectively to RT 17N, then follow the direction as given in direction (A) above

FROM: Interstate 287N take 87N, then follow as indicated in direction (A).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL THE FOLLOWING:

Joab Okello� 845-386-1110(H);914-772-4971;718-923-3382.

Joseph Nyaware 914-736-9454: Cell 914-525-1328

Odemba Ochola: 914-299-2999, 516-589-1016

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Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Ethiopia and France have agreed to establish a joint commission to enhance bilateral relations, APA learnt on Friday.

The agreement was made by the visiting French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Bernand Kouchner and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi who held talks late on Thursday.

The Ethiopian ministry of foreign affairs said the commission will help the two countries to further cement existing bilateral relations.

The two countries also expressed their commitment to scale up existing relations.

Ethiopia and France, which are closely working in education, trade and other sectors, vowed to enhance their ties so that French investors can work in Ethiopia.

The joint commission will discuss annually ways of improving bilateral relations.

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Khartoum (Sudan) Sudan Interior Minister Zubair Bashir Taha on Friday accused the American Central Intelligence Agency of smuggling weapons into the troubled region of Darfur.

Addressing youth organizations in Khartoum, Taha said the CIA is seeking to �disrupt the demographics of Darfur�.

Taha accused the US of being responsible for �prolonging the war in Darfur and the death of thousands of people after the Abuja peace agreement just like they did in Iraq.�

US special envoy to Darfur Andrew Natsios told reporters in Khartoum last week that Arab groups from neighboring countries were resettling in West Darfur and other lands traditionally belonging to local African tribes.

The Darfur conflict began in 2003 when an ethnic minority rose up against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, which then enlisted the Janjaweed militia group to help crush the rebellion.

According to UN estimates, at least 200,000 people have died from the combined effect of war and famine since the conflict started.

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Kampala (Uganda) The Lord�s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels negotiating with the Uganda government for a peace deal have not been paid their allowance for the last one month and according to the LRA�s technical advisor on the International Criminal Court (ICC) this would jeorpadise the peace negotiations.

David Matsanga, LRA�s technical advisor on ICC was on Friday quoted by the Ugandan press saying that although LRA is not in the peace process for monetary gains, their allowances and consultation fees have not been, blaming the accounting office of the United Nations mission in the South Sudanese capital of Juba.

He said non-payment of allowances would jeopardize the peace negotiations.

Matsanga said the LRA is not using the issue of allowances to stall the peace process and dismissed speculations that the peace process has been postponed.

He denied reports that the rebels are undermining the peace process because the ICC issued warrants against the LRA�s top leadership.

He said the rebels are grateful for the international community�s contribution towards the peace negotiations, but blamed the UN�s mission for being the cause of the controversy surrounding the peace process.

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Bamako (Mali) The Malian government and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) on Saturday signed a 50.5 million-euros (about 33.1 billion CFA francs) loan agreement to help improve the country�s electricity supply, APA has learnt.

Mali will provide a contribution of 1.8 million euros (about 1.2 billion CFA francs), the Malian Economy Minister Mr Abou Bakr Traore said at the signing ceremony in Bamako, the country�s capital.

The loan will be used to increase a thermic production capacity of 60 megawatts under the supervision of the Energie du Mali (EDM-SA, Energy in Mali).

Part of the money will also be used to purchase six diesel generators with a capacity of 60 megawatts, and three transformers; and will also help to train the company�s technical staff.

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