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Foreign tourists wait to board charter flights after checking out of their hotels in Kenya on Oct. 3, 201t. Nervous hotel owners are urging Kenya's government to step
up security in the area popular with tourists and rich Kenyans after last weekend's kidnapping of a French woman by Somali gunmen.
renc torist kidnapdrom
Kenya reported dead in Somalia
Polish lawmaker
campaigns for
gender equality
Grodzka recently ideas. Many young Poles have
lived for a time in places like
elected the first Britain, returning home with
reshaped views on sexual and
transsexual other minorities.
Grodzka runs Trans-Fuzja, a
parliament member foundation that supports some
1,000 transgender people in
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland, and decided to run for par-
Poland's first transsexual lawmak- liament to attract media attention
er vowed Monday to campaign for to her mission. Founded in 2007,
the rights of gender minorities the foundation lobbies for legisla-
and make predominantly Catholic tion that would secure the rights
Poland more receptive to trans- of the group and offers direct help
sexuals and homosexuals. to its members.
In an interview with The Asso- Her group also tries to raise
ciated Press, Anna Grodzka said awareness of the plight of trans-
the time has come for sexual gendered people - and her elec-
minority groups in Poland to enjoy tion so far has triggered numerous
the right to legal partnerships, television shows in past days
job security and state funding for examining the issue.
medical sex change procedures. .So far, Grodzka has she has
"Enough of this concealing of received many gestures of support
the truth," Grodzka said. "This from ordinary people since her
group of people, even if small, election began makingheadlines.
has its rights and they should be During the interview at a War-
respected. They should not be saw cafe, a young woman came up
pushed into oblivion." to Grodzka to shake her hand in a
The 57-year-old Grodzka made gesture of admiration and encour-
history in Poland by becoming the agement.
first ever transsexual to win a seat Grodzka also recalled how last "
in parliament in elections on Oct. week in Gdansk, a young mother
9. Her election underlines the pro- showed her a thumbs-up and
found social change taking place made her baby in a carriage also
in this deeply conservative and raise its thumbs.
mostly Catholic country. She said that among hun-
When parliament meets for the dreds of friendly gestures she has
first time, Poland will also have received only one hostile phone
its first openly gay person, Robert call, and believes that proportion
Biedron, a leading gay rights activ- testifies to growing a maturity and
ist, and two black lawmakers. tolerance of the society in Poland:
Before World War II, Poland She also noted the irony of
was a multiethnic society inhab- being elected to parliament from a
ited by Jews, ethnic Ukrainians, constituency in Krakow, a church
Lithuanians, Germans and others. stronghold where the Polish-born
But it became a homogenous soci- Pope John Paul II rose from priest
ety of mostly Catholic Poles after to archbishop before he was elect-
the Holocaust and the redrawing ed pope. Today a church stands on
of Poland's borders after World nearly every street.
War II. "ButKrakowis also auniversity
Great social flux, however, has city with plenty of young people,
come in recent years, especially of artists, of freethinkers," she
with European Union bringing said. "It all added up and showed
greater contact with Western in the vote."
Four Europeans
were kidnapped
from the country in
the past six weeks
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -
France said yesterday that a
cancer-stricken quadriplegic
Frenchwoman kidnapped off a
Kenyan resort island appears to
have died in captivity in Soma-
lia, prompting Kenya to call the
death an act of terror against the
East African nation and France.
Kenya said it sent some 1,600
troops into Somalia last week-
end to hunt al-Shabab militants
because of the kidnapping of the
French woman and three other
Europeans from its country over
the last six weeks. The nation's
tourism minister told The Asso-
ciated Press that the invasion is
meant to push Islamist militants
away from Kenya's tourist desti-
nations.
Somali gunmen snatched
Marie Dedieu in the middle of
the night from her resort island
home near Lamu on Oct. 1. The
66-year-old, wheelchair-bound
woman suffered from cancer and
required special medications
several times a day, medicine her
captors did not take with them.
French officials said Dedieu's
state of health and the fact her
kidnappers "probably refused to
give her the medication we sent
her" likely led to the death. The
foreign ministry said her death
had not been absolutely con-
firmed but was the most likely
situation.
, "We are so, so sad. We have
lost a mother of this village. We
have not lost a foreigner. We have
lost a mother of the community,"
said Abdullah Fadhil, the prop-
erty manager at Dedieu's resi-
dence in Lamu. "We wish she
would be alive but because she
has been sick and I know that the
captors cannot give her the care
she requires ... she has been very
weak."
France's Foreign Ministry
said that unspecified "contacts"
told French officials that Dedieu
had died but the date and cir-
cumstances of her death were
not immediately known. It did
not elaborate.
The Kenyan government
offered its condolences and said
Dedieu died while in al-Shabab
captivity. Kenya maintains al-
Shabab is behind the recent kid-
nappings, though some analysts
have instead blamed pirates or
criminals.
"The kidnapping and deten-
tion of Marie Dedieu was a terror
act not only against her, but also
against Kenya, her home country
France and the entire world," the
Kenyan government statement
said.
After a weekly Cabinet meet-
ing with President Nicolas Sar-
kozy, Foreign Minister Alain
Juppe said Dedieu's death "isn't
totally confirmed but is more
than probable."
"Madame Dedieu was a
gravely ill 66-year-old woman,
afflicted with cancer (and) quad-
riplegic," he said. "Seizing a
woman in this state is an act of
barbarity."
. French officials have demand-
ed that her remains be handed
over, and residents in Lamu
remembered her as a kind
woman.
"She was my friend," said resi-
dent Beatrice Halua. "She knew
how to live with everyone: good
people, bad people. She was a
nice person. She had so many
friends."
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