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Mathira massacre
The Mathira massacre was a sequence of unanticipated stonings and hackings which occurred in Karatina, Nyeri District, Central Province in Kenya on 21 April 2009. At least twenty-nine people are known to have died and three others were injured after fighting was reported between residents of the town and alleged members of the illegal Mungiki sect, described as Kenya's version of the Mafia.〔 Police said the majority of the victims were of Mungiki affiliation.〔
== Background ==
The violence had been limited to the Kirinyaga District for one week but suddenly spread when the Mungiki launched an attack on a minibus (''matatus''), at a road block which had been set up in the Kagio area. They were seeking revenge for the deaths of fellow sect members in Kirinyaga, an act which had initiated the violence in the first place. The minibus was owned by a local operator and because he was targeted, some people went to Karatina to confront his suspected assailants.
The sect had been continually acquiring money which belonged to the town's populace and the residents resisted when they grew weary of it.〔〔 Under threat of expulsion from the town by the Mungiki, they began to attack suspected members of the sect. The Mungiki resisted this attempt at vengeance by retaliating and engaging in open combat in local villages.〔
It is claimed that the massacre was planned and carried out in less than twelve hours. The attackers claim to have attended a burial in Kiangumara village and upon encountering local hostility were provoked into defending themselves. Members of the sect crawled one by one through nearby tea bushes to hide in the forest before leaping out to attack. They claim to have had help from allies.
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