Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Kenya stand on icc

pushed the country experienced post election violence in 2007 six Kenyans were charged at the international criminal court,the accused defended themselves saying they were sacrificial lambs as they were never involved, to anyway in the violence.Kenyan fought hard that the indicted could come back home .the court dropped some cases,saying they had no evidence to prove the accused had been actually involved in the post election violence.

Throughout this period the jubilee administration especially as two of the leaders had cases to answer pushed for Kenya"s withdrawal from icc saying the court was meant to prosecute leaders from the African continent and their counterparts from other continents were not questioned even if they go against  the law and cause deaths in their countries.

The government pushed the ICC saying it was in a position to handle the matters affecting the country internally without outside interference. The government went on to convince other African countries to back its  decision of withdraw from the court saying the continent was in a position to come up with a criminal court resembling the ICC

After the two remaining cases collapsed due to the fact that there was no enough evidence to prosecute them the issue of ICC have never been talked about again .The big question is: was the withdrawal agenda driven by the leaders to escape from the criminal court?
If they really meant what they were saying why haven't they continued to push for the same after the court terminated their cases?

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