Evelyn Hockstein

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From December 2007 to February 2008, Kenya experienced ethnic violence triggered by a disputed presidential election. The announcement of the election results triggered widespread and systematic violence, resulting in more than 1,000 deaths and the displacement of over 500,000 civilians. Clashes were ethnically-targeted, killing those aligned with the opposition party and counter-attacks on those aligned with the ruling party. F ollowing the conflict, evidence arose suggesting that much of the violence had been pre-meditated and planned by politicians and community leaders at both the local and national levels.

Police and residents try to quell a fire set in the Mathare slum in Nairobi as ethnic violence rages on.

Protestors take cover as an undercover police officer pulls out a hand gun during clashes between rival ethnic groups in the Mathare slum.

Kibera residents mourn over the bodies of two people just shot dead during opposition protests in Nairobi's Kibera slum. At least eight people were killed that day in violence.

Thousands of opposition supporters in Kibera, a slum of one million people, riot to protest the results of the presidential election and vow to inaugurate their leader.

Residents of Kisumu, Kenya's third largest city, stood outside a ransacked car dealership following the wave of looting and rioting that has engulfed the country as it begins to get back to normal after a week of post-election violence that has claimed more than 300 lives nationwide. Few places have been so thoroughly gutted by the turbulence as here.

A man who was hit on the head with a hoe and beaten by an angry crowd, is helped to the hospital by good samaritans. Looting by ODM supporters sparked riots in the Mathare slums, pitting rival ethnic groups against each other across a barricade.

A woman cries as she searches unsuccessfully for a missing relative among the bodies laid out in the overflowing morgue in Kisumu.

Desperate residents of Mathare break through the fence at the area chief's office and make a dash towards food stocks being handed out during a food distribution by the Kenyan Red Cross. They were chased back by police with whips.

Members of two tribal groups threw rocks at one another across barricades on Tuesday in the Mathare slum.

ODM supporters hold machetes, stones, and sticks as they shout towards Kikuyu residents of the Mathare slums during another day of ethnic violence in Kenya. Several homes were set ablaze in Mathare during running battles between Kikuyu and Luo ethnic groups.

A community leader begs his neighbors to put a stop to the ethnic violence ripping through Kenya.

A Luo mother and daughter wait their turn to be evacuated to safety by the Kenyan Red Cross after two days of brutal ethnic violence in Nakuru.

A Palestinian boy wets his pants as he is arrested by Israeli police for throwing stones during clashes with Israeli forces following Friday Muslim prayers in east Jerusalem.

2001- A Palestinian man lies wounded and surrounded by Israeli police after being shot in the mouth by a rubber coated metal bullet during clashes in east Jerusalem.

A masked Palestinian throws a rock towards Israeli soldiers from the roof of a church in Bethlehem, in the West Bank.

Displaced families walk past the body of a dead Congolese soldier, left on the road inside rebel controlled territory. Fighting escalated in recent weeks between the rebel group CNDP, the National Congress for the Defense of the People, and the Congolese army, displacing tens of thousands of people.

A young girl watches a rally for UPC president Thomas Lubanga, guarded by UPC soldiers in the village of Iga Barriere in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

UPC child soldiers man a checkpoint on a road leading into the town of Bunia, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.