Kenyan police have arrested a British aristocrat for shooting dead a man a year after murder charges against him were dropped in a similar case. Thomas Cholmondeley, the great-grandson of one of Kenya's first white settlers, Lord Delamere, told police he fired at a suspected poacher on his farm.
Last year he admitted shooting a Maasai ranger on his farm but denied murder.
Insufficient evidence led to his release prompting national outrage and mass protests from Maasais.
The BBC's Mohammed Adow in the capital, Nairobi, says this shooting is likely to spark more controversy in the central Rift Valley where resentment still rankles with the region's Maasai community over the dropping of the case.
Pack of dogs
Mr Cholmondeley and a friend were arrested after he phoned the police to tell them about the incident.

He told police that the man had three companions and a pack of dogs and he suspected them of poaching a gazelle.
He said he shot at the group after they set his dogs on him, hitting the man, who died later on the way to hospital, and killing two dogs.
Last year, Mr Cholmondeley admitted shooting Maasai ranger Samson Ole Sisina, but said he acted in self defence mistaking the warden for an armed robber.
Mr Cholmondeley is heir to a massive 100,000-acre farm in the Rift Valley region, acquired by his great-grandfather, who was one of Kenya's first white settlers.
That case highlighted the security fears of landowners and the resentment of the local Maasai population in the Rift Valley region.
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The thing that gets me is, this is the second time (that we know of) that He's murdered an African. Imagine if this was some British or other tourist murdered, what the uproar would be.

There two significant points to this story as I see it, the first is this, anyone who has ever been to Kenya, cannot really be surprised that this was effectively allowed to happen TWICE. Apart from the Masai, who are very physically distinct and a fiercly proud people, Kenya has no original culture that isn't begged, borrowed or imposed by those Alien cultures like the Arabs, British, portugese and Asians...

On another levelthis story clearly demostrates thehypocritical behaviours of the Europeanruling class when in other countries.. Aren't those of us who reside in the WEST always told that we ought to ASSIMULATE, INTERGRATE and respect the culture were we stand? I wonder then if the same benchmark will apply to this man,that is described inthe Daily Telegraph as a 'white' Kenyan. Not a 'Kenyan' a WHITE KENYAN...I thought that discription of him alone spoke volumes about their mindset.

Lets see if a so called independant 'Kenya' will meet out the right punishment to this man..I suspect not.

land seizures

that will put them foreigners in their place

Kenyans confront racial tensions after shooting
By Shashank Bengali
Washington Bureau

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NAIVASHA, Kenya | A fatal shooting involving the scion of East Africa's most prominent family of British settlers is renewing uncomfortable questions for Kenya about the legacies of its colonial past.

Thomas Cholmondeley, great-grandson of the third Baron Delamere, who came to Kenya from Britain in 1903, shot and killed a trespasser this month on his ranch near central Kenya's Lake Naivasha. Cholmondeley told police that he mistook the black stonemason for a poacher.

It's the second time in 13 months that Cholmondeley has admitted shooting a black trespasser. Last year, he was jailed for killing an undercover game warden from the Masai tribe, but he was spared a murder trial when prosecutors dropped the charges.

Many Kenyans think that the Delamere name influenced the outcome of that case, and after the latest incident hundreds of protesters barricaded a busy highway near Cholmondeley's ranch, carrying banners with messages such as "Hang the murderer."

The shooting has again exposed the social fault lines below the Lake Naivasha area, a stunning expanse of lush farmland ringed by azure mountain peaks, where native Kenyans coexist with white landowners who still control much of the land their families seized.

"This is bringing out a lot of tensions in this country, racial tensions which we haven't had in many years," said Mikewa Ogada, a researcher with the nonprofit Kenya Human Rights Commission in Nairobi.

In the 43 years since gaining independence, Kenyans have preferred not to look too hard at their colonial past. A few token gestures, such as replacing the British names on street signs with those of Kenyan freedom fighters, have sufficed.

Elected officials generally have allied with white landowners such as the Delameres rather than making them pariahs, as in Zimbabwe.

As a result, many black Kenyans think that whites live above the law. They wonder how Cholmondeley, whose gun permit was revoked after last year's shooting, was allowed to possess the 17 hunting rifles and other firearms that police seized from his ranch this month.

They wonder how Cholmondeley, whose gun permit was revoked after last year's shooting, was allowed to possess the 17 hunting rifles and other firearms that police seized from his ranch this month.

They're not the only one who wonder



"admitted shooting a black trespasser"


How can African "trespass" on African soil

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