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    "content": "It is no wonder that the Nazi holocaust led to the annihilation of some six million European Jews. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the Yugoslav wars, there were ethnic conflicts from between 1991 to 1999 on a territory of former Yugoslavia. The wars were accompanied by the breakup of the country where constitutional republics declared independence. But the issues of ethnic minorities in a few countries, chiefly Serbs in the central part of Bosnia in the south east were left unresolved after those republics were recognized internationally. Mr. Speaker, Sir, during the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, one of the indictments against the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, was the use of Serbian State’s mass media to create an atmosphere of fear and hatred amongst Yugoslavia’s Orthodox Serbs by spreading exaggerated and false messages of ethnically based attacks on Bosnian Muslims and Catholic Croats against the Serb people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, nearer us is the Rwandese example whereby use of words such as nyenzes that were translated very ably into cockroaches eventually resulted into the massacre of some 800,000 people. At the start of the use of the word nyenze, nobody had been killed. But at the end of the use of the word nyenze, genocide had taken place in Rwanda. Words such as “exterminate the cockroaches” had been raised. In Bosnia Herzegovina, the same thing happened and the Bosnian war took place in the context of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia as a result of the hatred and cleansing of people who were different from others. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in Kenya the examples will not be complete without making reference to our own history. The post-election violence of 2007/2008 is still fresh in our minds. This was largely attributable to spurring of ethnic divisions and hate speech in all corners of our country, where there have been divisions along ethnic or clan lines. One always finds statements or utterances by those in leadership that have contributed to such divisions and the results are violence, death and displacement. Mr. Speaker, Sir, leadership is a public trust. Leaders must exercise their leadership functions in a manner that is consistent with the provisions of the Constitution and unites rather than divides our people. Our counties cannot merely be breeding grounds for intra-county disputes; the place where people within a county rise up against those from outside their county or those not of their ethnic extraction. If this is allowed to happen, the principles and objects of devolution will surely be defeated. Where a leader such as the Deputy Governor of Machakos, in churches and burials, urges the removal of"
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