'Ethnic cleansing' in Kenya's Rift Valley, says U.S. envoy
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | 6:39 AM ET
CBC News
Violence in Kenya's Rift Valley is aimed at pushing people out of the region, an organized effort the U.S. envoy to the east African country called "ethnic cleansing."

Jendayi Frazer made the comment while speaking to reporters Wednesday at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa about her visit to the Rift Valley earlier this month.

"There has been an organized effort to push out people from Rift Valley," said Frazer. "It is clearly ethnic cleansing. I don't consider it genocide."

"The aim originally was not to kill, it was to cleanse, it was to push them out of the region," she said.