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Mysterious deaths of high-profile ICC witnesses point to worrying political trend

On December 28, 2014, Meshack Yebei walked into a chemist, walked out, and vanished into thin air.

Yebei, a key witness in President William Ruto's International Criminal Court (ICC) case, was in his rural home in Turbo, Uasin Gishu County, and it was his last day to be seen alive by his village mates. His body was found three days later, deep in Tsavo National Park, which is hundreds of kilometres away from Turbo.

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