Luis Moreno Ocampo to announce suspects at 2pm Kenyan time on Wednesday.
The much awaited announcement by International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo of names of six post election violence suspects will be made at 2pm local time on Wednesday.
A statement from ICC said that the press conference where he is expected to make public the names of the six Kenyans behind the 2008 chaos will not be held at 5pm as earlier announced.
Ocampo will present two cases, both with up to three suspects, and is widely expected to name suspects from Kenya’s two main political movements: the Party of National Unity and the Orange Democratic Movement.
Web streaming of the press conference will be available at the following links:
The naming of the suspects is already heightening tensions in the country but the government has assured Kenyans of security during the ICC process.
ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo started a formal probe in March 2010 into the 2008 post-election violence in which 1,220 people died and more than 350,000 were displaced.
Coalition leaders, business leaders and security chiefs could be named, and although the prosecutor has said he will request summons for voluntary appearances, judges could still opt to issue arrest warrants
“The best-case scenario would be to have ICC prosecutions going forward and complemented at the national level with additional trials of other perpetrators,” said Liz Evenson at Human Rights Watch.
“At the end of the day, it is up to ICC judges to decide whether there is some national proceeding in place that cuts off ICC jurisdiction, but I think we’re still far off from that.”.
Kenya said on Monday it would set up a local court to try suspects involved in the violence and that it would be established regardless of what the ICC does.
Source: KBC
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