Kenyan Violence Spiraling Out of Control

This is just insane. After more than 100 died in rioting over the past few days, a mob torched a church, killing at least 50 more people.

A mob torched a church sheltering hundreds of Kenyans fleeing election violence on Tuesday, killing as many as 50 people as the convulsion of bloodshed continued after the disputed vote that gave the president a second term. The opposition leader accused the government of "genocide."

President Mwai Kibaki said political parties should meet immediately and publicly call for calm after rioting killed at least 263 people in what had been east Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy.

The church fire in Eldoret, some 185 miles from the capital, killed at least 50 people, said a Red Cross volunteer who counted the bodies and helped the wounded. She asked that her name not be used for fear of reprisals.

The violence is along tribal lines, and it is quite possible we're witnessing the early stages of ethnic cleansing and genocide along the lines of Rwanda in 1994.

Rioting broke out after opposition parties claimed that Kibaki rigged the elections so that he'd win. Nearly 36,000 people have been forced from their homes and hundreds of buildings have been torched.