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Foreign and domestic condemnation of the killings, which occurred hours after a government spokesman accused the activists of being a front for a brutal crime gang, poured in. "I fear we are flirting with lawlessness in the name of keeping law and order. In the process, we are hurtling toward failure as a state," said Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who partners President Mwai Kibaki in the year-old unity government. Unidentified gunmen killed Oscar Foundation director Kamau Kingara and programs coordinator Paul Oulo after blocking their car on a central Nairobi street following a day of protests on Thursday by the Mungiki gang in central Kenya. Small demonstrations broke out afterwards and a student was shot dead by police in the early hours of Friday. Police said three officers were arrested for using live ammunition against students, who had taken the body of one of the activists. Students protested again as darkness fell on Friday and police fired tear gas at youths blocking a street and throwing rocks and bottles outside Nairobi University's main campus. Gathering protests against alleged extrajudicial police killings have added to widespread disillusionment with the poor record of a year-old coalition government formed to end the east African country's bloody post-election crisis a year ago. The unrest in Kenya, the region's largest economy, will worry investors and make the government's task of rebuilding the nation after last year's violence even more difficult. The two Oscar Foundation officials had mobilized protests on Thursday against what they said was the illegal killing of 1,721 young people and the disappearance of 6,542 others suspected by the police of being Mungiki members or sympathizers. Other rights groups and a U.N. special investigator put the number killed in a crackdown, mainly in 2007, at about 500. 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