Omollo this is real life okay? Not a game!
Robina
nowhere have suggested any of that. I have simply provided information about similar events, specifically the dangers of getting soldiers out of the barracks to take partisan sides in a political battle.
I pointed out the folly of such an action because the belief that " I have an army behind me as I grab power" can turn out to be hollow even dangerous. Kibaki saw it when the police started killing each other leading to a decision to change tactics.
My experience is that when the police and paramilitary make war against civilians, it gets destroyed within two weeks (Egypt). With the army it self destructs even faster as internal fissures come to the surface.
Maybe the Kenya Defence Forces are more unified and monolithic than the ones in the cases I have cited. I cannot speak about that.
Civil war is not sparked off by civilians fighting the army. No. It starts with the authorities taking the army out of the barracks. It's the army itself or units of it that mutiny and there begins your civil war.
In South Sudan Numeiri sent colonel Garang to fight in the south. The rest of the story is known to you. I have pointed out Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast already.
There is a variant: where soldiers overthrow the said government. Obote II comes to mind. A unit of the army drive him out. Said Barre was a victim of mutinous units of his army turning against him. Again one of the developments of the Sierra Leone war saw one of the dictators overthrown by a combined force of soldiers and disloyal elements.
In brief political disputes must be solved politically minus the contribution of the military. Any military involvement must be rejected out of hand. Neither the opposition nor the government should make overtures or appear to solicit military support. It means the government must eschew the use of the army either as a catalyst or threat in political disputes.
Feel free to stay abroad. We need more Kenyans around the globe.
Iwinjo?