The ICC Prosecutor’s press conference on Kenya will be held on 15 December at 12:00
On Wednesday, 15 December 2010, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo will hold a press conference at 12:00 (The Hague local time, 14:00 Nairobi local time) and not at 15:00 as previously scheduled. The press conference, during which the Prosecutor will make an important announcement concerning the investigation in the Kenya situation, will be held in the Press Briefing room of the ICC in The Hague.
The press conference will be broadcast through Eurovision, free of rights and free of charge in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa (through AFNEX). Information on frequencies, contacts and updates can be found here.
Web streaming of the press conference will be available at the following links:
- English: http://livestream.xs4all.nl/icc5.asx (Note that Live streams will only be available when the Press conference is on from 12.00)
- French: http://livestream.xs4all.nl/icc6.asx (Note that Live streams will only be available when the Press conference is on from 12.00)
Audiovisual summary and broadcast quality files (audio and video) containing highlights of the press conference will be available following the event.
Attending the Press Conference
- Journalists attending the press conference are kindly asked to:
- confirm their attendance by sending an email to PublicAffairs.Unit@icc-cpi.int;
- arrive no later than 11:30;
use the public entrance located at Regulusweg; and present a valid press identification card.
Media Centre
The Court’s Media Centre will open at 10:30 and will close 90 minutes after the press conference has finished.
The area can seat up to 64 people and includes plasma TV screens; a Wi-Fi Internet service; cards (plug + play) for those without Wi-Fi capability in their PC or laptop; 6 computers with Internet access; and 7 telephones that may be used free of charge for internal calls. For external calls, journalists are advised to use their mobiles or purchase 0800 pre-paid phone cards beforehand. Such cards are available at newsagents and train stations.
Please note that phone cards cannot be obtained in the vicinity of, or at, the ICC.
Recording facilities
The Court will provide feed from the Press Briefing room to the hot-desk area of the Media Centre. The tables in the Media Centre contain plugs for the video and audio feed from the press briefing room (4:3, PAL): BNC video output and XLR audio output. You can record from three possible audio channels: 1 – floor, 2 – French and 3 – English. Each table contains an audio plug. If you need to record on two channels, please use another plug at another table for the second channel.
Please note that, in the Press Briefing room, audio breakout boxes will be available for the language being used (“Floor”), as well as English and French. XLR connections are used for the audio, and the distance from the breakout box to the camera location is approximately 15 meters. The ICC does not have spare cables available for the crews.
Feed for the SNG trucks
SNG trucks can record the signal from Courtroom I from the distribution box placed in the media parking facilities (see below). Please note that there is no power supply available at the car park and that it is therefore necessary to have a generator.
Parking facilities
Media representatives can use the parking facilities located at the intersection of Regulusweg and Wegastraat.
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+ 31 70 515 8422
+ 31 70 515 8422
orvioleta.willemsencurcic@icc-cpi.int
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Source: Office of the Prosecutor
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The so-called ‘our leaders’ do not have our interests at heart. Kenyans should know that these are people who are concerned more about themselves, their families, cronies and concubines.
When they incite you to fight, be brave and ask why. Kenyans should remain united and peaceful after the ICC names the suspects and the due process that will follow. There is no country in this world that went to war after ICC indicted their leaders. Kenya should not have the dubious distinction of being the first.
How deep will The Hague sword cut the flesh of suspected post-election violence perpetrators? As politicians who are allied to suspects fight to dump the ICC, victims weep for justice to be done.
It is time for wananchi to put their faith in Ocampo and hope he has what it takes to end the impunity that has rocked the country for many years.
We watched with disbelief and wondered how elected leaders like Ndaragwa MP Jeremiah Kioni and his colleagues could stoop as low as rubbishing the ICC process.
They should realise that it is too late for them to think of stopping the ICC process. They were given several chances to form a local tribunal, which they shunned.
It must never have crossed their minds that the international court would strike one day. They are now very bitter and cannot imagine that their ‘masters’ risk being indicted.
These legislators should be reminded that we are closely watching how selfish they are. It would appear that they do not think much about the thousands who were displaced, raped or killed, and the children who suffer for sins they did not commit.
These are leaders who should not be elected to lead constituencies leave alone a cattle dip committee. Kindly note that we voted you in and we are the same people who will vote you out.
Ocampo has done his own independent investigation. He knows very well that he cannot present shoddy work. Judges in the Hague aren’t biased like our own. They do their homework and if there will be no evidence linking anyone, the case will be thrown out.Real justice and not River Road Justices. Let the likes of Ruto and some others look for good lawyers. Backdoor business doesn’t work – Kenyan style. All our MPs wanted the Hague and Kenyans aren’t fools.
Please note, Ocampo is not after election cheats nor those who called mass demonstrations, though I wish there were avenues to fight election frauds to avoid other Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast type cases. He is after those that masterminded the post election killings and rapes and subsequent revenge attacks. The problem is the revenge attacks point to people close to the presidency. If I were the president, I would be equally cautious lest my name is dragged in the mud. That is why we have this ferocious and well coordinated plan to block and besmirch the ICC process.
The ICC has jurisdiction over crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes: hence the 6 will go to Hague in spite of the local tribunal. The tribunal will be formed to try those “lesser” crimes for which the ICC has no jurisdiction. That said, the political class has shown no will to prosecute those lesser crimes and this knee-jerk reaction to Ocampo’s Wednesday’s announcement is disingenuous.
Those expected to be named include former Cabinet minister William Ruto, an ethnic Kalenjin. His lawyer said Ruto believes he is among the suspects because he received a letter from the ICC asking him to respond to allegations of involvement in the violence.
The court may also name Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, an ethnic Kikuyu, who was accused of involvement in a report presented to the ICC by the government-funded Kenya National Commission of Human Rights. Kenyatta has gone to court get his name expunged from the report.
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world-africa/20101213/AF.Kenya.ICC/
When Luis Moreno Ocampo – the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands – names six top Kenyans Wednesday accused of orchestrating mass violence in late 2007 and early 2008, Kenyan security forces around the country will be prepared for the worst.
They have good reason. Supporters of at least one senior Kenyan, William Ruto, who was minister of both agriculture and higher education, have vowed to make their Rift Valley region “ungovernable” and to unleash a wave of mass violence modeled after the Rwandan genocide. Their motive: to punish their enemies, especially those who have testified against Mr. Ruto, and to prevent Ruto’s possible arrest and extradition to The Hague.
Calling themselves the “Friends of Hon. William Ruto,” a group of 20 prominent Kenyans, including famous marathon runners, prominent businessmen, ex-military officers, and local elected officials, has spent significant portions of the past year obstructing the ICC’s investigation, intimidating witnesses, and planning a Rwanda-style ethnic cleansing in the Rift Valley. The aim: to prevent the possible extradition and arrest of their ethnic group’s top politician for his alleged role in promoting the 2007-08 post-election violence, according to minutes of the group’s meetings and other evidence obtained by the Monitor that is also in the hands of Kenya’s National Security and Intelligence Service and the ICC.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2010/1214/Special-Report-As-ICC-names-suspect-Kenyan-leaders-records-reveal-talk-of-more-ethnic-cleansing
“Kenyans are hoping that we will see some level of accountability especially for the high-level masterminds who in Kenya’s past have always enjoyed political impunity,” he said.
Ministers and top government officials are widely believed to be among the six. Official Kenyan reports have accused the masterminds of mainly inciting and planning the violence.
Kenya will be the ICC’s fourth African case after Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army top rebels whose charges mainly concern genocide crimes, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The ICC, which started operating in the Hague in 2002, is the world’s only independent, permanent tribunal with the jurisdiction to try genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Kenya was plunged into its worst post-independence violence after the December 27, 2007 general elections in which then opposition chief Odinga accused Kibaki of rigging his re-election.
What began as political riots soon turned into ethnic killings targeting Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe, who then launched reprisal attacks in which homes were torched, people hacked to death and some 300,000 forced to flee their homes.
The violence was brought to an end after Kibaki and Odinga agreed to work in a power-sharing government under a deal brokered by former UN chief Kofi Annan.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/12/20101214221149231369.html
Any predictions on Ocampo’s list? My guess:
William Ruto
Uhuru Kenyatta
General Ali
John Michuki
Jayne Kihara
Njenga Karume
I am happy that the Kenyan case is in hand.The Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo should be strict to those being mentioned because they think Hague is Kenya where they use money to bribe and corrupt the Judges and Advocates to set them free. Secondly Moreno should ask the Kenyan leaders why Kibaki prepared the Army pared before the election for swearing and why he chose to be sworn in at night in the State House without all Kenyans to witness at daytime at Uhuru Park where usually the ceremonies are done? Him and his security team must answer that question.Hague should help Kenyans who have suffered for many years in impunity rule.
Elijah doesn’t look like a killer. He has the small wiry frame of a marathon runner, which he is, and the intense stare of a man on the run, which he also is.
Elijah was once a fierce supporter of Kenya’s main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which in the 2007 election campaign promised to give ethnic Kalenjins a greater role in the political power structure in Nairobi, and more control of their ancestral lands.
Some firebrand leaders of the Kalenjin community – who are the majority in the agriculturally rich Rift Valley – promised voters free land, land that would be made available because Kalenjins would push out the current ethnic Kikuyu owners who many Kalenjins view as foreign “invaders.”
For Elijah, these campaign promises were not horrifying; they were music to his ears. Soon after arriving back in Eldoret after living a few years abroad, he began organizing youths to attend rallies for ODM’s main candidate in Eldoret, William Ruto – and when the election results denied them the outright victory they expected, he helped organized youths for war.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2010/1214/Why-one-young-Kenyan-decided-to-kill-for-an-ethnic-militia
Watch Moreno Ocampo Live from the Hague on KBC: http://www.watchkenyalive.co.ke/
OCAMPO’s LIST OF SIX PEV PERPETRATORS:
1. William Ruto
2. Henry Kosgei
3. Joshua Sang
4. Francis Muthaura
5. Uhuru Kenyatta
6. Former Police Commissioner Ali
more names were supporsed to be listed.
Raila
KIbaki
Martha Karua