Oppression and Privilege

GARISSA, Kenya (AP) - More than a dozen people have been shot, one woman has died and hundreds of shops were burned to the ground in this eastern Kenyan town amid rising Somali-Kenyan tensions, officials said Tuesday.

The violence follows a lethal attack here on Monday in which three Kenyan soldiers were killed. Local sympathizers of al-Shabab - a Somali Islamist extremist group that Kenyan troops are battling in Somalia - are suspected to be responsible for the soldiers' deaths, said military spokesman Col. Cyrus Oguna.