THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court prosecutor named several Kenyan government ministers and a former police chief today as suspects behind the east African country’s post-election violence in 2008.
Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he was requesting summons for suspended education minister William Ruto, industrialisation minister Henry Kiprono Kosgey and radio executive Joshua Arap Sang on charges of murder, deportation, persecutions and torture.
The prosecutor will also seek summons for Kenya’s secretary to the cabinet Francis Kirimi Muthaura, finance minister Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and former police chief Mohammed Hussein Ali on allegations of murder, deportation, persecutions and rape.
More than 1,220 people died and more than 350,000 were displaced in Kenya’s post-election violence in 2008, severely denting Kenya’s reputation for stability in a turbulent region.
