--I am getting a little jittery over the repeated delays, postponements and all the backpedalling talk about "false evidence" and "lying witnesses" in the Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta International Criminal court trial. I don't want to say I smell a rat but I feel like I am getting a whiff. Is the stage being set to let Kenyatta off the ICC hook?
There has been feverish efforts to defer, delay and dismiss Kenyatta's prosecution as a sitting head of state since January 2012 when the International Criminal Court's (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber confirmed charges against him. In May 2013, Kenya's Ambassador to the U.N. Macharia Kamau filed a 13-page "Confidential" letter with the President of the UN Security Council seeking to take the Kenyatta case out of ICC hands and directing it to relinquish jurisdiction to Kenyan courts. In the same month, Hailemariam Desalegn, the ceremonial prime minister of Ethiopia and rotational chairman of the African Union, went on the warpath accusing the ICC of going on an African safari "race hunting" black African leaders. In June 2013, the ICC delayed Kenyatta's trial until November 12 having determined Kenyatta's defense team needs adequate time to prepare for trial. In September 2013, Hailemariam formally demanded that the ICC drop charges against both Kenyatta and Ruto. At the 68th UN General Assembly, Hailemariam hectored that the ICC is undermining the "ability of the Kenyan leaders in discharging their constitutional responsibilities" and that dropping the charges "is very critical to support the peace building and national reconciliation processes in [Kenya]."Read More
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Kenyatta at the ICC: Is Justice Deferred, Ju...
Most people will prefer a cerebral approach to a court case and evidence is paramount. Maybe your visceral " jittery " is due to the fact that you missed where the ICC admitted that its evidence does not rise to a hill of beans? So why are you smelling rats?
In a message dated 1/27/2014 7:00:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, mystock@ymail.com writes:
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