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ICC not the better option but culture of impunity justifies it

By Wangari Maathai

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and his team of Eminent Persons finally decided to hand over the Waki envelope to the ICC’s Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo. They did so because they gave up on the willingness of Kenyan political leadership to establish a local tribunal and deal with the perpetrators of the post-election violence. Until then they believed, as I do, that a local tribunal would have been the better option. The Hague was the option of the last resort.

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