East Africa: ICC Spreads Its Tentacles

Dar Es Salaam — The International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo this week shook East Africa and the continent at large when he named six Kenyans alleged to have masterminded the country's worst post-independence bloodletting that snuffed out about 1,500 lives.

The Hague-based court took charge of trying key suspects in the violence following a disputed presidential election in 2007, after Nairobi failed to set up a local tribunal last year in line with agreements that ended the chaos.

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