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Police: Why Post-Election Violence cases cannot be prosecuted in Kenya

A scene from the 2007/8 Post-Election Violence. PHOTO: FILE

NAIROBI: The more than 5,000 post-election violence (PEV) cases could not be prosecuted because of various reasons, police say.

The biggest challenge was that the 2007/8 PEV cases were investigated as ordinary penal offences, not as international crimes against humanity.

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