Civil society should nurture voice in the voiceless

Seemingly out of the blue, someone decided to try revive the specter of the International Criminal Court (ICC), after Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda reiterated—as she has consistently done in her formal reports to the ICC and the United Nations—that there are still some outstanding issues with regards to witness tampering.

There is nothing new in what Ms Bensouda reported but her reports were seized by some to try to revisit the idea of a witch-hunt and recreate victimhood status for a suspect, something that was devastatingly effective in 2012/2013. Then, Messrs Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto—with the help of British public relations companies—remarkably shifted the narrative of mass killings, rape and forced displacement to one that presented them as victims, with little thought of the real victims of that gruesome violence.