Posted on 02/16/2009 3:30:41 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Chief Kenya mediator Kofi Annan has suggested that he might send a list of suspected election violence ringleaders to the International Criminal Court.
He said he would obey the "spirit, letter and intent" of a commission of inquiry into the violence.
The commission delivered a sealed list of suspects to Mr Annan and said it should be sent to the ICC if a local tribunal was not set up by 1 March.
Parliament on Thursday rejected a bill to establish the special court.
Some 1,500 people were killed after political and ethnic rivalries caused clashes around the country following the disputed December 2007 elections.
Many MPs said they did not have faith in Kenya's justice system and that those involved in the violence should be tried at The Hague.
Mr Annan, who brokered a power-sharing deal to end the violence, said he was disappointed in the parliamentary vote.
"I believe it is also a blow to efforts aimed at ending the culture of impunity in Kenya," said the former UN secretary general.
Under parliamentary rules, the bill cannot be re-introduced to parliament until six months have elapsed.
The BBC's Anne Mawathe in Nairobi says the government could possibly ask for more time to establish the local tribunal.
After Thursday's vote, Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development Mutula Kilonzo, who was part of the mediation team that crafted the power-sharing agreement, said the president and prime minister had let down the country and should resign.
President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga attended the session of parliament to lead the vote in favour of the bill.
The bill required the support of 145 MPs to be passed, but only 101 MPs voted in favour.
The opposition to the bill came from MPs who support both Mr Kibaki and Mr Odinga.
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Does it strike you as interesting that Obama is considering joining the International Criminal Court, and this article just comes out. Me thinks he’s trying to protect Odinga and sell out our country at the same time.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-oginga-o.html
Unfortunately he will overlook Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who caused it all.
BHO’s 1 st cousin, or so he says.
The U.N. is totally worthless, on second thought worse than totally worthless!
F the ICC and the communist mule it rode in on.
I may not like what is going on in Kenya, but involving the UN or the ICC is not the answer.
Providing any legitimacy whatsoever to the ICC, is a terribly misguided error.
Hell, the UN itself is basically a criminal enterprise.
Stealing oil food for dollars cash, raping underage female children... where does it stop with the UN?
Stick a fork in it. It’s done!
“Annan hints at ICC Kenyan trial”
Heck, I thought it was about Odumbo’s birth certificate!
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