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Kenyans protest ‘greedy pig’ lawmakers after salary hike

Dancing Kenyan demonstrators paraded a giant papier-mache pig doused in animal blood outside parliament Tuesday to protest wage hikes for newly elected lawmakers. A few hundred placard-waving “Occupy Parliament” protesters then smashed the pig at the gates of parliament, pouring animal blood over it.