Australia's ABC News Online, carries an AFP report, that police in Kenya have burned down the homes of around 4,000 squatters. More than 300 grass-thatched huts in the Eburru forest, were destroyed during a long-running tussle between landless squatters and the government. The 12,000-acre forest is considered a key water catchment basin for the region.In burning the homes, authorities were defying a court order to stop evictions after 50,000 homeless were evicted in another forest.
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