ICC analysts pitch camp in Eldoret Town

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By | Oct 20, 2010

By Vincent Bartoo

Situation analysts from the International Criminal Court (ICC) are in Eldoret in their final leg of countrywide tours.

The team travelled to Eldoret from Kisumu led by Senior Analyst in ICC Prosecutor Luis-Moreno Ocampo’s office, Emeric Rogier.

They arrived in the town on Monday evening before Rogier reportedly flew out to Nairobi.

A fellow analyst, Mohammed Kheir, was left to steward the team that first held private talks with security chiefs yesterday morning.

International Criminal Court analysts in Eldoret Town, Tuesday. The team is in a fact-finding tour in places affected by post-election violence following a disputed presidential election in 2007. [PHOTO: Peter Ochieng/STANDARD]

They reportedly met two human rights groups and some victims of the post-election violence before touring some of the hotspots, including the Kiambaa Kenya Assemblies of God Church where 28 people, according to Government records, were burnt to death.

The team also visited Langas and Huruma estates where people were allegedly abducted, killed and bodies buried in trenches.

Dead and injured

They also visited Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital where most victims of the violence, dead and injured, were taken at the height of the skirmishes.

The hospital’s morgue was overstretched with the high number of bodies collected by police.

The team had a difficult time keeping away journalists on their trail, engaging them in a cat and mouse chase.

A senior officer who requested anonymity told The Standard the analysts were generally interested with the security situation in the region.

"They wanted to know how security situation has been since the violence and the trend in view of their (ICC) work although they were not very direct with what they wanted," he said.

The team will leave Eldoret today after touring areas adjacent to Uasin Gishu, including Matunda, where the first house was torched.

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