ICC Kenyan minister to discuss
election violence: court
"The Kenyan Minister of Justice, Mr Mutula Kilonzo, will pay an official
visit to the ICC tomorrow, July 3, 2009," a court statement said
Thursday.
"The prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will hold private consultations
with the Kenyan Minister of Justice on alleged crimes committed in the
context of post-election violence."
The court did not provide any further details on the nature or content of
the talks.
Kilonzo and a delegation would also be received by ICC president Sang-
Hyun Song, said the statement.
"President Song will take the opportunity to show his appreciation of
Kenya?s sustained commitment and co-operation to the work of the
Court since ratifying the Rome Statute."
Some 1,500 people were killed in a matter of weeks following
presidential polls in December 2007 in which the then opposition chief
Raila Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of having stolen the vote.
Odinga is now prime minister under a power-sharing deal.
The government has yet to act on the recommendations of its own
inquiry last October that a special tribunal be set up to try those thought
responsible.
In June, former UN chief Kofi Annan called for Kenya to set up a
special court to try suspects, or have them face justice before the ICC.
The same month, Amnesty International accused the government of
having done nothing to end the impunity enjoyed by police and security
forces for abuses they carried out during the post-electoral violence.
The ICC is the world's only independent, permanent court with the
jurisdiction to try genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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election violence: court
- 2 July, 2009 THE HAGUE
(AFP) — Kenya's justice
minister will discuss the 2007
post-election violence there
with the prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court in
The Hague on Friday, the
court said.
"The Kenyan Minister of Justice, Mr Mutula Kilonzo, will pay an official
visit to the ICC tomorrow, July 3, 2009," a court statement said
Thursday.
"The prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will hold private consultations
with the Kenyan Minister of Justice on alleged crimes committed in the
context of post-election violence."
The court did not provide any further details on the nature or content of
the talks.
Kilonzo and a delegation would also be received by ICC president Sang-
Hyun Song, said the statement.
"President Song will take the opportunity to show his appreciation of
Kenya?s sustained commitment and co-operation to the work of the
Court since ratifying the Rome Statute."
Some 1,500 people were killed in a matter of weeks following
presidential polls in December 2007 in which the then opposition chief
Raila Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of having stolen the vote.
Odinga is now prime minister under a power-sharing deal.
The government has yet to act on the recommendations of its own
inquiry last October that a special tribunal be set up to try those thought
responsible.
In June, former UN chief Kofi Annan called for Kenya to set up a
special court to try suspects, or have them face justice before the ICC.
The same month, Amnesty International accused the government of
having done nothing to end the impunity enjoyed by police and security
forces for abuses they carried out during the post-electoral violence.
The ICC is the world's only independent, permanent court with the
jurisdiction to try genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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