Nairobi — Names of key post-election violence suspects will be tabled before the Pre-Trial Chamber at The Hague Wednesday.
An International Criminal Court (ICC) official on Tuesday said prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will go before the judges to provide the names and the role they played in the chaos as requested two weeks ago.
The names, said Information officer Nicola Fletcher, will be based on the evidence of the Waki Commission, Kenya National Commission for Human Rights and other reports prepared by local and international agencies on the violence.
"We have information in our possession in answer to these questions and we will provide the answers to the judges immediately. There is more information from the Waki Commission including names that we can share with the Judges," she said in response to questions e-mailed to The Hague by the Nation.
The Pre-Trial Chamber judges gave Mr Moreno-Ocampo until Wednesday to provide additional information and clarifications which will link prominent personalities, among them politicians and business people, to the election chaos and the crimes against humanity that were committed.
However, Kenyans will only know the names if Moreno-Ocampo's list is not sealed.
The prosecutor had requested the judges, on November 26 last year, to grant him permission to start investigations into the crimes against humanity that were committed during the chaos that followed the disputed 2007 Presidential election results.
At least 1,133 people were killed in the two-month mayhem while another 650,000 were displaced from their homes.
The ICC official described the order as a normal procedure, which will be fulfilled by Mr Moreno-Ocampo on Tuesday.
In a bid to fulfil the direction of the judges, the prosecutor's office wrote to the KNHCR requesting to use the data that culminated in its report On the Brink of the Precipice: A Human Rights Account of Kenya's Post-2007 Election Violence".
The KNHCR report named a number of ministers, assistant ministers, MPs and business people who were suspected to have planned, financed and helped in the execution of the violence.
However, the Waki Commission concealed the names in an envelope, which it handed to chief mediator Kofi Annan, who later submitted it to the ICC.

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