Armed with bows and arrows and automatic weapons, hundreds of attackers poured through the camp where the terrified had sought refuge Sunday. They fired into the air, sparking a brief gunbattle with police before fleeing into the hills.
Hours later, after the bodies of a woman and her baby shot dead were carted away, aid agencies arrived to hand out emergency sacks of food to the hungry masses.
It sounds like a scene from war-ravaged Congo or Sudan. But this is Kenya, a country long known for welcoming refugees from troubled neighbors _ not producing them.
A week of postelection violence has left at least 250,000 people homeless, shattering the East …
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