http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-witnessconflict/article_848.jsp Comments for "More trouble in paradise, Susan Richards " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-witnessconflict/article_848.jsp To the outside world, the bomb blast that hit the Mombasa Paradise Hotel on 28 November was the latest strike in al-Qaida&#146;s &#147;war&#148; on Western targets. The local perspective is different. For the indigenous population of the Kenyan coastal region of Msumarini and the neighbouring villages of the Kilifi district, the bomb was just the latest calamity in the region&#146;s downward spiral into poverty and banditry. Before the bombing, a recent Kenyan poll voted the Kilifi district as the third most likely in the country to erupt in violence.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-witnessconflict/article_848.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-witnessconflict/article_848.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-witnessconflict/article_848.jsp#comment conflicts Original Copyright Susan Richards witnessing conflict Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0000 848 at http://www.opendemocracy.net