(((They only list four gangs, but I've never heard of two of them.)))
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4310
Link: Foreign Policy: The List: The World’s Most Dangerous Gangs.
"The Mungiki, Kenya
"Membership: as many as 100,000 men from the Kikuyu, Kenya’s largest ethnic group
"Stronghold: the slums of Nairobi, where they manage multimillion-dollar rackets over everything from electricity to public transportation
"Known for: formerly, for dreadlocks and bathing in blood; (((hey, who can't like THAT?))) now, for forced female circumcision and the beheading of any opposition, be they members of rival ethnic groups or disloyal minibus drivers
"Why they’re dangerous: The Mungiki are just one of Kenya’s many machete-wielding ethnic gangs—some of which sport names like the “Kosovo Boys” or the “Taliban” (an entirely Christian gang that apparently just thought the name sounded tough). But in recent years, the Mungiki, whose name means “multitude” in the Kikuyu language, have become a political force..."
"United Bamboo (Zhu Lien Bang), Taiwan
"Membership: 10,000 mainly ethnic Chinese members and associates living in Taiwan
"Stronghold: Taiwan
"Known for: Drug smuggling, human trafficking, and “silencing” journalists as far away as Northern California. A good rule of thumb: If it’s illegal, they do it.
Why they’re dangerous: United Bamboo emerged as the largest of several Beijing-backed assassination machines in the wake of the Communist takeover of mainland China. In 1984, their dissident hunt took them as far as suburban San Francisco where they murdered Chinese-American journalist Henry Liu in his own garage. Two decades later, United Bamboo’s gangsters are just as international but now have their hands in “virtually every facet of illegal activity imaginable,” including human trafficking, gunrunning, and the drug trade..."
