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Baby Pendo: Police officers to be charged

The burial of six-month-old Samantha Pendo in Nyalenda Kisumu on August 26, 2017. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

In unprecedented win for rule of law, Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji Friday opened a window for top-level accountability for post-election violence of 2017, including the killing of a six-month-old Baby Samantha Pendo.

Haji sanctioned the arrest and prosecution of unnamed "senior national police officers" for crimes against humanity involving murder, rape and torture under the International Crimes Act No.16 of 2008.

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