Ocampo Meets the Principals

Kenya has declined to refer cases of crimes against humanity committed during the 2007 post election skirmishes to the International |Criminal Court. President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga rejected the option given to them by the ICC prosecutor Louis Moreno Ocampo insisting that Kenya was still keen to have the cases tried through a local judicial mechanism. But Ocampo, who has pledged that Kenya would serve as example to the international community on how to fight impunity, maintained that it was time the ICC got involved in the Kenyan situation and therefore he would next month be seeking the permission of the ICC pre-trial judges to start investigating the Kenyan cases. As Francis Gachuri reports, what that means is that if given the green light, Ocampo could get cracking on the cases from early next year in a laborious process that could run for several years.

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