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killing stirs bitter past  Anything less than a full trial of
accused white land owner could spark violence.  By Rob
CrillyContributor to The Christian Science Monitor / May 31,
2006   Serah Waithera Njoya gets up from the fire where she is
cooking dinner and welcomes the latest visitors to her mud-brick
home set deep in Kenya's Great Rift Valley.  Skip to next
paragraph  Government ministers, MPs, church officials, and
tribal leaders have all stopped by recently.  There, over plates
of steaming rice and potatoes, Ms. Njoya tells visitors how her
life has changed since her husband was shot dead earlier this
month by one of Kenya's most prominent white landowners.  "He is
a heartless, merciless man. He is 'mnyama,' " she charges, using
the Swahili word for animal. "He has left me with four young
children and no breadwinner."  The target of her anger is the
Honourable Thomas Cholmondeley (pronounced CHUM-ley), her
neighbor and sole heir to the fif