Activists Break Up Opposition Rally

Wielding clubs, stones and bottles, ruling party activists disrupted an opposition rally and blocked the entrance to parliament to keep government critics from discussing constitutional reform in Kenya. Seven people were seriously injured, police said. Members of the youth wings of the ruling Kenya African National Union and the allied National Development Party stormed the stage where James Orengo, a member of parliament from the opposition Forum for Restoration of Democracy in Kenya party, was to make an address. Riot police threw tear-gas grenades, and the riot moved into the slums surrounding the square. At one point, the fighting involved more than 1,000 people.