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10 thoughts on “Breaking News: Ocampo Six Summoned, 7th April 2011

  1. With Kalonzo’s stupid shuttle diplomacy, let us see how Kibaki will deal with this new move from Ocampo.

    The Rome Statute which provides the legal framework for the ICC endorses the principle of complementarity, according to which the Hague Court can only exercise jurisdiction when the state in which crimes are committed is unable or unwilling to prosecute the crimes itself. So on the surface this might seem a reasonable request. In addition, Kenya adopted a new constitution in August 2010, fundamentally reforming a judiciary long characterized by corruption and lack of independence. The prospects of dealing domestically in a fair and impartial way with the planners and perpetrators of the 2007/8 political violence, ought thus to have improved. What is more, President Mwai Kibaki’s as well as Prime Minister Raila Odinga have both stated their commitment to creating fair and impartial accountability mechanisms in Kenya, seemingly adding credibility to the claim that Kenya can deal with the crimes itself. However, a closer assessment of the situation in Kenya strongly suggests that ICC involvement is crucial for achieving that accountability, and that there could be negative consequences were the UN Security Council to accede to the African Union request.

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/thomas-obel-hansen/why-ocampo-six-should-not-become-kenya%E2%80%99s-six

  2. Does Kibaki and his Impunity Network respect warnings against their futile bid for a deferral of the ICC cases? No, because they believe nobody should tell them that they are bound to fail. They are wasting another 35 million Kenya shillings to lie to members of certain communities that they shall help “their people” (the criminals), yet in reality Ocampo is right on schedule and soon having them at The Hague. Kweli wajinga waliwao.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/kenyacitizentv#p/u/33/miBf0Ci-Hb0

  3. I believe the govt is buying time so that latter they will claim seculity council refused to listen to them thus the govt will refuse to co-operate with icc in regard to warrant of arrest.

  4. Uhuru is Killing Pev witnesses>Skip to content.Extrajudicial killings witness found dead .
    Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:15 BY JESSE MWANGI . TRAGEDY: Mourners at Mugoiri,Muranga during the burial of two brothers who were allegedly killed by police.
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    Shock and grief engulfed residents of Mugoiri in Murang’a yesterday after the mutilated body of a key witness who had been abducted on Friday was found dumped at Loitoktok with gunshot wounds.

    Kenneth Irungu Waitwika was a witness in a murder case in which two brothers, Peter Irungu and John Kamuri from Mugoiri, were murdered in December last year.

    Human rights activist Maina Azimio said Waitwika had gone to the Makadara court on Friday for the mention of a case in which he was charged with being a member of the outlawed Mungiki sect. He had confronted the matatu crew of a vehicle from which the two slain brothers, who were his cousins, had been dragged out and killed.

    The brothers were on their way back to Nairobi after celebrating Christmas with their widowed mother at Mugoiri village. They boarded a matatu at Kahuro market where the conductor demanded Sh300 up from the usual fare of Sh250. Along the way he raised the fare even higher to Sh350.

    The brothers protested the increment and demanded to be taken back to where they boarded so they could catch another matatu but the conductor refused and called the Kayole Police Station saying Mungiki members were bothering him.

    The matatu stopped at Ruiru bypass where two people who identified themselves as police officers came out of a white car parked on the roadside.

    The conductor pointed at the two brothers who were forced out of the matatu. Later the bodies of the two brothers were found at city mortuary by Ruiru police. One had four bullets in the head shot at a close range and the other had two.

    Waitwika who was a teacher in Mararal was on the same matatu as the slain brothers and was the only credible eye witness in the murder case.

    Maina Azimio who had accompanied Waitwika to court said he left with his two brothers and a friend in a white saloon car after the next hearing was set for May 6.

    From the court Waitwika went to Muthurwa market to have lunch with some friends from where he was abducted and his body found dumped in Loitoktok.

  5. VP Should Not Be A Sycophant
    Tuesday, 08 February 2011 16:46 BY DAVID MAKALI .Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka loves a contest with Prime Minister Raila Odinga. And the servant leader has been at his delightful best the past month. Whatever political rewards came with it, his runs provoked fundamental questions about his own ethics and leadership morals. Kalonzo took over two crosses that were not his and frantically tried to own them. He shuttled around the continent to sell Kenya’s flip-flop position over

  6. Timeline – Kenya and the International Criminal Court

    Here is a timeline of events relating to Kenya and the International Criminal Court:

    December 30, 2007 – President Mwai Kibaki is declared winner of presidential election and hurriedly sworn in. His rival, Raila Odinga, says the vote was stolen. Riots erupt. The violence kills more than 1,220 people and uproots 350,000.

    February 28, 2008 – Kibaki and Odinga sign a power-sharing agreement to form a joint government after weeks of negotiations led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

    September 18 – An official inquiry says the conduct of the election is so defective it is impossible to establish reliable results and determine the real winner of the presidential poll.

    July 9, 2009 – Annan says he has handed a sealed envelope with the names of at least 10 alleged masterminds of the violence to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

    November 5 – ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo says he will request an investigation into suspected crimes against humanity committed during the violence.

    March 31, 2010 – ICC judges authorise Moreno-Ocampo to investigate Kenya’s post-election violence.

    August 4 – A new Kenyan constitution is adopted after winning landslide support in a referendum.

    November 3/4 – William Ruto, the suspended higher education minister, travels to The Hague and meets ICC investigators. He says days later he had “set the record straight” to the ICC after being accused of involvement in the violence.

    December 15 – ICC prosecutor names a former police chief and several ministers, including Ruto and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, as suspects behind the violence.

    December 22 – In a bid to block any trials at The Hague, lawmakers pass a motion urging Kenya to withdraw from the Rome Statute that established the ICC.

    January 31, 2011 – African leaders back Kenya’s plan to defer the cases of key suspects accused by the ICC. Kibaki says Kenya is preparing the ground for local trials.

    March 8 – All six suspects are summoned to appear before the ICC on April 7/8 for an initial appearance.

    March 9 – Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo says Kenya will challenge the right of the ICC to try the cases involving post-election violence.

    March 22 – Kibaki says Kenya will fast track laws to implement its new constitution, set up a supreme court and reform its judiciary to strengthen accountability of the courts to handle the trials of suspects. The European Union says it would back local trials if Kenya revamped its courts. (For more Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: af.reuters.com/)

    (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit; Editing by David Clarke and Jeffrey Heller)

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/04/05/uk-kenya-icc-events-idUKTRE7342CJ20110405

  7. If Elections were held today, who would you vote in?

    Poll runs till Mon Apr 18, 2011 6:41 am

    Uhuru Kenyatta 22% [ 2 ]

    Raila Odinga 44% [ 4 ]

    William Ruto 0% [ 0 ]

    Kalonzo Musyoka 0% [ 0 ]

    Martha Karua 33% [ 3 ]

    Eugene Wamalwa 0% [ 0 ]

    Total votes : 9

  8. So what has changed to make Kikuyu IDPs’ lives better? Nothing!! The only Kikuyus and Kalenjins enjoying the political joy is Uhuru and Ruto. NObody cares about the Kikuyu IDPs at the top level.

    It is over three years since the country experienced one of its darkest days in history… when communities that once lived happily together, turned against each other. For some of the victims of the violence, the wounds have healed albeit slowly… however, fears that the wounds could be split open afresh are rife following the summonses to appear before the Judges at the Pre- Trial Chamber, issued by the International Criminal Court to the six, suspected to have borne the greatest responsibility to the violence.

  9. Ocampo: Mungiki attacks planned at State House
    Posted by BERNARD MOMANYI on August 19, 2011

    NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 19 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor has released details alleging how Head of Civil Service Francis Muthaura convened a meeting at State House Nairobi, where Mungiki criminal gangs were supplied with arms and Administration Police uniforms and later transported in military trucks to commit murders in Naivasha.

    Luis Moreno Ocampo released the Document Containing Charges (DCC) on Friday showing how Mr Muthaura allegedly coordinated the attacks jointly with Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and the then Police Commissioner Hussein Ali.

    The elaborate evidence details how Mungiki leaders and their members were transported to State House, Nairobi for a strategy meeting to plan a series of coordinated attacks in various parts of Rift Valley.

    And soon after the State House meeting which was attended by high-ranking government officials, the Mungiki militia were given specific instructions and assured that no police officer would interfere with their mission.

    Mr Ocampo says he has evidence to prove that the State House meeting was held on January 27, 2011. But on learning of the allegations on Friday evening, the Presidential Press Service sent a terse statement denying that any such meetings involving the Mungiki ever took place at State House Nairobi.

    “We refer to reports attributed to ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo claiming that there was a meeting with Mungiki at State House. The reports are reckless, baseless and untrue. As we have previously stated, State House has never hosted any meeting of the Mungiki as claimed by Ocampo,” read the PPS statement.

    In his documents, Mr Ocampo claims Mungiki who had been earmarked to carry out the attacks were “mobilised through text messages requesting them to report at specific locations in Nairobi from where they were picked up by Citi Hoppa buses and transported through secret routes to the State House in Nairobi.”

    “Upon arrival at the State House, the Mungiki members were addressed by a Mungiki leader in the presence of senior government officials,” he added in the evidence he intends to table during the Confirmation of Charges hearing scheduled for September 21 at The Hague, Netherlands.
    After the State House meeting, Mr Ocampo said the Mungiki attackers were loaded on military trucks and given brand new machetes to use to attack people in Naivasha.

    “The trucks contained brand new machetes as well as wooden clubs which the Mungiki were instructed to use for the battle in Naivasha,” the document states.

    The Mungiki were broken up into groups of 10 fighters each to be commanded by an experienced Mungiki member of the military wing, Mr Ocampo says in his evidence.

    “The strategy employed by the attacking Mungiki and pro-PNU youth was to deploy secretly through the forests on the outskirts of town, mix with the other local Kikuyus to swell the numbers available for the fighting, deploy simultaneously in different places in town, monopolise the attention of the authorities and efforts of the Kenya Police and demand the lifting of a curfew within the town and withdrawal of a unit of deployed prison guards who they accused of harassing the local population and supporting the ODM,” Mr Ocampo states.

    The prosecutor goes ahead to release graphic details of how the youths carried out heinous attacks on members of the Luo community in Naivasha.

    “In one incident, a perceived ODM supporter was ambushed by a group of pro-PNU youth who cut off his testicles and placed them in his hands before cutting off his penis and putting it in his mouth,” Mr Ocampo said.

    The next day, Ocampo says, the victim’s headless body was found lying on the road. “The attackers had mutilated his body in front of his five-year-old son.”

    Several other attacks were carried out in Nakuru and surrounding areas following meetings at State House Nakuru which was arranged by a former KANU MP.

    Regarding Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Ocampo says he has evidence showing he is the one who funded and coordinated Mungiki activities, having developed links with them long before the post election violence of 2007/08 due to his wealth and what the ICC Prosecutor terms as “privileged background.”

    “Kenyatta mobilised, armed and financed the Mungiki and pro PNU youth for the purpose of carrying out operations in the Rift Valley during the PEV through a series of meetings held in Nairobi between the end of December 2007 and end of January 2008,” Mr Ocampo says of the Finance Minister who is seeking to replace President Mwai Kibaki who retires next year.

    “Kenyatta organised and financed retaliatory attacks by the Mungiki against perceived ODM supporters in the Rift Valley; in one particular meeting with Mungiki leaders in Nairobi in early January 2008, Kenyatta gave the Mungiki some operational directions for the retaliatory attacks and at the local level in Nakuru, Kenyatta specifically tasked a former KANU MP to coordinate the retaliatory attacks.”

    Mr Ocampo states that he has obtained evidence showing that indeed Ambassador Muthaura had placed a telephone call to the then police commissioner Ali urging him to ensure the Mungiki attackers were not interfered with at all.

    “In one of the meetings in Nairobi in early January 2008, Muthaura requested Mungiki leaders to deploy their members to the Rift Valley to carry out retaliatory attacks. Muthaura also assured the Mungiki leaders that the police would not interfere with their work. During the meeting, he placed a phone call to Ali to instruct him to ensure that pro-PNU youth would not be prevented from going into the Rift Valley.”

    “During another phone conversation with Ali in mid January 2008, Muthaura reminded Ali that the Mungiki were working with them and ordered him not to arrest them,” Mr Ocampo says of Ali who is now the Postmaster General.

    Both Ali, Muthaura and Uhuru have maintained innocence against the charges levelled against them and have indicated they have strong evidence, including witnesses to defend them when they appear at The Hague on September 21.

  10. That is Partly(Kionjo) Ocampo has Pictures/cell-telephone numbers and the British intelligence and CIA/FBI/Mossad has the whole confersation at the State-House Secret Missions!These Govt Fools doesnt know that telephone talk is not secure.
    Its an oppen secrets that everything bte Uhuru/ Ali /Michuki /Kibaki is very well in the Public Domain (Mambo Bodi)=

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