Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/kenyan-peace-talks-delayed-after-death-of-second-opposition-legislator Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan postponed talks between rival leaders in Kenya Thursday after an opposition lawmaker was killed -- the second in three days. L.A. Times Nairobi Bureau Chief Edmund Sanders discusses the prospects for an end to the turmoil. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: And now the Kenya story. It comes from Edmund Sanders, Nairobi bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. He's in the Rift Valley where much of the violence has taken place. Judy Woodruff talked with him by phone earlier this evening. JUDY WOODRUFF: Thank you for being with us. Today in the city where you are, Eldoret, there was the killing of a second opposition leader in Kenya. What can you — in just a matter of a few days. What can you tell us about this? EDMUND SANDERS, Los Angeles Times: Well, the second killing, as you mentioned, has really put the whole country on edge a little bit. Kenya really doesn't have a tradition or a history of assassination of its members of parliament. The last time it happened was in 1990, and now we have two in a three-day span.So people are very nervous. The country's very tense. After the first assassination a couple of days ago, you saw rioting in some Nairobi slums.And today, as the word spread, you saw some clashes in at least three cities in Kenya. At least one person here in Eldoret was killed. And just nervousness and concern about how people are going to react to this. JUDY WOODRUFF: What is known or what is believed to be behind this killing today? EDMUND SANDERS: Today's killing was a little bit different, and maybe that's why we're seeing a little bit of a delay in the reaction.The police are saying that was a crime of passion, that this lawmaker was involved in a love triangle. They have arrested the man who killed him. He's a policeman. The policeman was involved with a woman, who was also involved with the lawmaker. And apparently the policeman had been following the two, encountered them in a car this morning, and shot both of them.Police say that he's confessed that he might not even have known that the man he killed was a member of parliament and that it's really not politically motivated.Opposition leaders, though, are very skeptical about that. In fact, they find that a little bit difficult to believe. Opposition leader Raila Odinga said he that thinks it's really more of a plot, a scheme by government supporters to weaken them and to erode the very slim majority that they have in parliament right now by essentially killing their representatives.