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Read one of the highest Impunity case in the history of Kenya and after the promulgation of the new constitution
The Govt dropped Waititus Criminal case just to save him from loosing his job in PARLIAMENT (wILL ANY MP ,mINISTER BE CHARGED IN COURT HENCE LOOSING HIS/HER JOB?
Police were ordered to withhold charges lined up against Assistant minister and Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu.
Sources said officers handling the case were called and ordered not to take him to court as planned, ostensibly because that would ruin his political career.
CID officers from the new Makadara Police Division were ready to move to court and register Waititu’s case yesterday morning when they received instructions to “carry out further investigation”.
Further notice
Nairobi politicians, including a Cabinet minister, are said to have prevailed upon senior police officers to hold the charges of incitement until further notice.
“You know if he steps in court, he has to step aside from his ministerial position until the case is heard and determined and that is why there is pressure for us to hold the case,” said a senior officer, who asked not to be named.
Security had been beefed up at the Makadara Law Courts awaiting the arrival of the assistant minister.
Waititu had been released on a Sh10,000 police bond on Monday after he pledged to come to court yesterday.
He had been arrested during a dramatic demolition at the KPA slums, off Mombasa Road, Nairobi, after he allegedly told residents not to move out.
The assistant minister had arrived in an official car and tried to tell residents to stay put when anti-riot police landed on him and dragged him into a police car.
It is at the same area that four police officers were injured and two bulldozers burnt in a clash last week. Embakasi OCS lost his gun.
At the Industrial Area Police Station, Nairobi, the MP told journalists that he had been told he was under arrest.
Police officers said they feared the Embakasi MP’s remarks could lead to violence similar to last week’s that saw an officer injured and property damaged.
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.
ICC to name Kenyan politicians behind 2007 poll violence
ICC to investigate Kenya election violence. Will leaders cooperate?
How Kenya came undone
.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.
Nuremberg Military Tribunals
Nr Name Opened Closed Notes
I Doctors’ Trial 9 December 1946 20 August 1947 20 of the 23 on trial were medical doctors. They were accused of war crimes because they did medical experiments on prisoners of war and civilians of occupied countries, and helped in the mass murder of concentration camp inmates. They were also accused of doing the same to Germans. This was called a crime against humanity.
II Milch Trial 2 January 1947 14 April 1947 Luftwaffe Field Marshall Edward Milch was accused of using slave labour, and allowing medical experiments
III Judges’ Trial 5 March 1947 4 December 1947 War crimes and crimes against humanity by misuse of the court and prison systems.
IV Pohl Trial 8 April 1947 3 November 1947 Oswald Pohl and 17 others from the SS Administration department, which was responsible for the Concentration camps and slave labour
V Flick Trial 19 April 1947 22 December 1947 Freidrick Flick and 5 other directors of Flick Kommanditgesellschaft. The Flick KG used slave labour in its mines and factories, as well as taking over factories in France, Poland and Russia, and “Aryanisation of property” which means getting things once owned by Jews who were forced to sell cheaply.
VI IG Farben Trial 27 August 1947 30 July 1948 24 leaders of the IG Farben company charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity because of the slave labour they used, as well as stealing or plundering from occupied countries, like the Flick and Krupp companies
VII Hostages Trial 8 July 1947 19 February 1948 Wilhelm List and 11 other Generals in Greece and the Balkan countries were accused of keeping hostages mass murder and deportation and destroying towns
VIII Einsatzgruppen Trial 29 September 1947 10 April 1948 24 leaders of the death squads charged with mass murders which were crimes against humanity and war crimes
IX RuSHA Trial 20 October 1947 10 March 1948 14 leaders of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism, the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, VoMi), and the Lebensborn society, charged with racial cleansing and resettlement activities which included forced abortions
X Krupp Trial 8 December 1947 31 July 1948 Directors of this company were charged with being involved in the plundering, devastation, and exploitation of occupied countries, as well as taking part in the murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, and use for slave labor of civilians who came under German control, German nationals, and prisoners of war;
XI Ministries Trial 6 January 1948 13 April 1949 21 senior civil servants who were accused of planning or helping the war, the mass murders etc.
XII High Command Trial 30 December 1947 28 October 1948 14 senior officers of the German Armed Forces . They were charged with War crimes by being responsible for murder, ill-treatment and other crimes against prisoners of war and enemy belligerents, and also crimes against humanity by taking part in or ordering the murder, torture, deportation, hostage-taking, etc. of civilians in occupied countries.
Read one of the highest Impunity case in the history of Kenya and after the promulgation of the new constitution
The Govt dropped Waititus Criminal case just to save him from loosing his job in PARLIAMENT (wILL ANY MP ,mINISTER BE CHARGED IN COURT HENCE LOOSING HIS/HER JOB?
Police were ordered to withhold charges lined up against Assistant minister and Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu.
Sources said officers handling the case were called and ordered not to take him to court as planned, ostensibly because that would ruin his political career.
CID officers from the new Makadara Police Division were ready to move to court and register Waititu’s case yesterday morning when they received instructions to “carry out further investigation”.
Further notice
Nairobi politicians, including a Cabinet minister, are said to have prevailed upon senior police officers to hold the charges of incitement until further notice.
“You know if he steps in court, he has to step aside from his ministerial position until the case is heard and determined and that is why there is pressure for us to hold the case,” said a senior officer, who asked not to be named.
Security had been beefed up at the Makadara Law Courts awaiting the arrival of the assistant minister.
Waititu had been released on a Sh10,000 police bond on Monday after he pledged to come to court yesterday.
He had been arrested during a dramatic demolition at the KPA slums, off Mombasa Road, Nairobi, after he allegedly told residents not to move out.
The assistant minister had arrived in an official car and tried to tell residents to stay put when anti-riot police landed on him and dragged him into a police car.
It is at the same area that four police officers were injured and two bulldozers burnt in a clash last week. Embakasi OCS lost his gun.
At the Industrial Area Police Station, Nairobi, the MP told journalists that he had been told he was under arrest.
Police officers said they feared the Embakasi MP’s remarks could lead to violence similar to last week’s that saw an officer injured and property damaged.
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.
ICC to name Kenyan politicians behind 2007 poll violence
ICC to investigate Kenya election violence. Will leaders cooperate?
How Kenya came undone
.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.
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Nuremberg Military Tribunals
Nr Name Opened Closed Notes
I Doctors’ Trial 9 December 1946 20 August 1947 20 of the 23 on trial were medical doctors. They were accused of war crimes because they did medical experiments on prisoners of war and civilians of occupied countries, and helped in the mass murder of concentration camp inmates. They were also accused of doing the same to Germans. This was called a crime against humanity.
II Milch Trial 2 January 1947 14 April 1947 Luftwaffe Field Marshall Edward Milch was accused of using slave labour, and allowing medical experiments
III Judges’ Trial 5 March 1947 4 December 1947 War crimes and crimes against humanity by misuse of the court and prison systems.
IV Pohl Trial 8 April 1947 3 November 1947 Oswald Pohl and 17 others from the SS Administration department, which was responsible for the Concentration camps and slave labour
V Flick Trial 19 April 1947 22 December 1947 Freidrick Flick and 5 other directors of Flick Kommanditgesellschaft. The Flick KG used slave labour in its mines and factories, as well as taking over factories in France, Poland and Russia, and “Aryanisation of property” which means getting things once owned by Jews who were forced to sell cheaply.
VI IG Farben Trial 27 August 1947 30 July 1948 24 leaders of the IG Farben company charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity because of the slave labour they used, as well as stealing or plundering from occupied countries, like the Flick and Krupp companies
VII Hostages Trial 8 July 1947 19 February 1948 Wilhelm List and 11 other Generals in Greece and the Balkan countries were accused of keeping hostages mass murder and deportation and destroying towns
VIII Einsatzgruppen Trial 29 September 1947 10 April 1948 24 leaders of the death squads charged with mass murders which were crimes against humanity and war crimes
IX RuSHA Trial 20 October 1947 10 March 1948 14 leaders of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism, the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, VoMi), and the Lebensborn society, charged with racial cleansing and resettlement activities which included forced abortions
X Krupp Trial 8 December 1947 31 July 1948 Directors of this company were charged with being involved in the plundering, devastation, and exploitation of occupied countries, as well as taking part in the murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, and use for slave labor of civilians who came under German control, German nationals, and prisoners of war;
XI Ministries Trial 6 January 1948 13 April 1949 21 senior civil servants who were accused of planning or helping the war, the mass murders etc.
XII High Command Trial 30 December 1947 28 October 1948 14 senior officers of the German Armed Forces . They were charged with War crimes by being responsible for murder, ill-treatment and other crimes against prisoners of war and enemy belligerents, and also crimes against humanity by taking part in or ordering the murder, torture, deportation, hostage-taking, etc. of civilians in occupied countries.