ABSTRACT
In 1997, another election year, just when it looked like police would no longer attack crowds at political opposition rallies, they did so with a vengeance.
On May 31, police and demonstrators clashed as police tear-gassed the crowd. But on the Kenyan scale of violence, it was nothing like what happened in Nairobi at the next rally, July 7, a traditional day for protest. At the July protest, hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel were dispatched throughout the downtown business district and at the intended rally sites, including Uhuru Park, and at the Kamakunji grounds, site ofthe first rally in 1990.
