By TOM MALITI By Tom Maliti The Associated Press

Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back crowds of protesters heeding an opposition call for a "million-man" rally that many fear could worsen the violence that already has killed 300 people and displaced 100,000.

Text of editorial in English entitled "Kenyans don't deserve deaths as New Year's gift" published by Rwandan newspaper The New Times website on 1 January The New Year's Day celebrations in Kenya sound a distant memory today, in fact a mourning time for many families.

By Tom Maliti NAIROBI, Kenya - Hand on a Bible, President Mwai Kibaki was sworn in for a second term Sunday on the State House lawn, declaring, "We have done our nation proud." Outside the gates, the slums of Kenya's capital exploded in violence.

By Tom Maliti Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya --