Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi)
10 July 2009
The government was thrown into a panic after it merged that suspected masterminds of the post-2007 election, some of them powerful people state officials, could face international justice at The Hague.
Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General who brokered the power-sahring deal that ended the violence, has revealed that he handed over a secret list containing names of politicians and other perpetrators to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Louis Moreno-Ocampo.
With the names is all evidence gathered by the commission led by Justice Philip Waki in the investigation of the violence that left about 1500 dead and 300,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Annan said that he acted "on the basis of accords between the Kenyan government and the ICC."
All attention now shifts to the ICC prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo who has made it clear that if the government does not heed to the agreement entered into the ICC that a special tribunal be set up before September, then The Hague will take over the case.
Annan said he welcomed the Government of Kenya's renewed efforts to implement the recommendations of the Waki Commission and to establish a Special Tribunal, but added that "any judicial mechanism adopted to bring the perpetrators of the post-election violence to justice must meet international legal standards and be broadly debated with all sectors of the Kenyan society in order to bring credibility to the process."
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