Kiling what does your conscience say?

I subscribe to the notion that all human life is worthy and that apart from God none should have the authority to kill. However my belief has been brought to question and challenged over and over in the last two years. During the last general elections that saw president Kibaki accend to the helm of the country's presidency, what followed afterwards was total anarchy, chaos, looting mass murder, revenge, wanton destruction of property. For what? For who?

People are now refugees in their own country, they fear going back to their homes. Is this fear misplaced I ask? What do you say to some one who has seen his family killed and mutilated in front of his very eyes. Sorry? Is that supposed to make everything better?

I lost my a loved one during those scarmishes and there isn't a day that goes by that I dont think about that person. How would I respond if I met that person face to face.........what would I do, what am I capable of.......I love human life and I subscribe to "every human life is worthy and no single person should hold the right to take another's life." but my belief here is brought into question, would I look the other way, would I turn the other cheek. I'm not sure....

In Kisii District this year, a rumor had it that there were witches who basicaly were being commissioned by various individuals to stall, bring bad luck or even kill individuals/communities. how true this was I have no idea. but what followed there after is.......people were lynched in broad day light. They were beaten with spades, mashettes, pangas.....mutilation occured then finaly as a final act of torture paraffin was poured on them and then set a blaze.

I saw a clip of a woman set a blaze, running screaming for help with fire blazzing over her and guys surrounding her....not offering any sort of help but actually whipping throwing kicks and ..... it was horrible and brutal. Total inhumane. This is worsened by the fact that half of the people that were there don't know this for a fact but were part and parcel of this unGodly act.

Would I kill....I don't know.....but certainly if I did anything contrary to what the law expects from me....I would certainly expect the law to do it job and hand me the punishment I deserve. After all if justice is only a word, hate becomes the only passion.

My prayer is that God forgives us our tresspasses as we forgive those who tresspasses against to lead us not into tempatation but to deliver us from evil. Amen.

Now I answer.....No I cannot kill. I chose life, I chose to forgive and let God help me heal so that I could forget.

I love all mankind I love Kenya and especially Kenyans.

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