BREAKING NEWS: ICC issues summons for six Kenyans on charges of masterminding post-polls havoc
By Muhammad Osman
March 8, 2011 (NAIROBI) – Judges at the Pre-Trial Chamber of The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) have agreed to a request by the court’s Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to issue summons for six high-profile Kenyans accused of masterminding the 2007-08 post-elections violence in the country, sources told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday.
As many as 1,200 people were killed and 500,000 were displaced in the turmoil that erupted in Kenya when the incumbent Mwai Kibaki who leads the Party of National Unity (PNU) was declared winner of the 2007’s elections against his rival Raila Odinga of the opposition Orange Democratic Party (ODM).
The six suspects, due to appear before the court on April 7, are split evenly between the PNU and the ODM.
The crisis ended in 2008 when the two rivals signed a power sharing agreement and formed a coalition government led by Kibaki as a president and Odinga as Prime Minister.
The ICC prosecutor was authorized to investigate post-elections violence after Kenyan politicans thwarted attempts to establish a local tribunal. Kenya is a member of the Rome Statute which founded the ICC and thus under legal obligation to cooperate.
The lawyer representing suspended education minister William Ruto denied his client was guilty of any crime but said Ruto will appear before the court on April seven, as reported by Voice of America.
Opinion polls conducted in Kenya show that an overwhelming majority of the population supports the ICC intervention to try the suspects who allegedly masterminded the violence.
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Omoni Atari
BREAKING NEWS: ICC issues summons for six Kenyans on charges of masterminding post-polls havoc
Thank you ICC for playing importance role for justice for all, especially in Africa. Africa is a dark continent without human values and respect for human right. I lived in for almost twelve years, and i know all these suspects,and some of them are going to plead guilty and prosecuted for their crimes they did to Kenyan citizens.
Uhuru kenyatta is the head of Mungiki,”terrorist” in kenya.
He has to face the justice.
And later Omar Hassan Al Bashir has to follow the same suit .
No one is Above the LAW.
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BREAKING NEWS: ICC issues summons for six Kenyans on charges of masterminding post-polls havoc
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