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   TODAY Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:14:44 -0800 (PST)

Despite ODM being stopped from conducting their countrywide peaceful protest for the second day running they have vowed not to call off their three-day protest.

ODM team leader Raila Odinga condemned the police for using excess force and acting on a shoot to kill order on unarmed protestors and alleges that close to 16 people have been shot by the police in this two days of protests.

Raila said 44 peopple have been confirmed dead in kisumu and 143 suffering from bullet wounds as he sought to give the name of the police constable from Kondele who was caught by KTN camera man shooting an unarmed protester who was only jumping up and down calling for his right

"In mathare 7 have been killed this past two days while 3 in kibera and 6 in migori" Raila said during an international press conference in Nairobi.

Adding that the their records indicate that the post elections violence has claimed over 1000 lives with more than half of them suffering bullet wounds and his now calling for the international bodies to take action against the government for committing crimes against humanity as he showed photographic evidence of bodies with bullet wounds in morgues and hospitalized victims.

At the same time, Kasarani Member of parliament Elizabeth Ongoro blamed the police for shooting her driver Felix Okongo to death as he left for work early this morning.

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