What triggered the protests in Kenya?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Protesters stormed the Parliament of Kenya on Tuesday as gunshots rang out in the capital, and at least five people were killed. The violence erupted over a new bill to increase taxes. According to protesters, it could have a devastating effect on many Kenyans' lives. What ignited these protests, and why are young people leading them?
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- Zein Basravi (@virtualzein), Al Jazeera Journalist
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This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker and Chloe K. Li with Mohamed Zain Shafi Khan, Veronique Eshaya, and our host Malika Bilal. It was edited by Amy Walters.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, what started out as peaceful protests in Kenya turned deadly. |
| 0:16.0 | What appears to have been live gunfire killing, |
| 0:22.9 | apparently at least one people and several others who appear to have been injured with gunshot wounds. |
| 0:26.1 | What ignited these protests, |
| 0:28.7 | and why are young people leading the movement? |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:49.2 | Malcolm Webb, who's now in Nairobi. |
| 0:52.9 | Malcolm, I know that you've managed to get to us on camera. |
| 0:54.9 | Just explain to us where you are and what you're seeing right now. So we're just outside the parliament building in Central Nairobi. It's there. |
| 1:01.3 | Al Jazeera correspondent, Malcolm Webb, has been covering the protests in Kenya for about a week. |
| 1:07.5 | The demonstrators were protesting against a finance bill that would increase taxes. |
| 1:12.6 | And for the most part, things have been peaceful. |
| 1:15.6 | The demonstrators here are now chanting. |
| 1:18.6 | Got a banner there that says, enough is enough. |
| 1:21.6 | But on this Tuesday, events took a turn. |
| 1:26.6 | Just over there, just outside Parliament was a body of a young man who But on this Tuesday, events took a turn. |
| 1:33.1 | Just over there, just outside Parliament was a body of a young man who was carrying a Kenyan flag. |
| 1:37.8 | He had a bullet hole right in the center of his forehead. |
| 1:40.2 | His brains were spilled on the pavement. |
| 1:48.0 | Later that day, at least five people had been shot dead by police, with many more injured. There's also many plain-closed security operatives around carrying guns, |
| 1:54.0 | and we saw some of them earlier shooting into the crowds. |
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