Divided Kenyan Cabinet Abandons Polls Violence Tribunal

Police guard ballot boxes during Kenya’s election: The country’s Cabinet cannot agree on setting up a local tribunal to try violence suspects.

A divided Cabinet on Thursday gave up on a local tribunal and decided to clean up the police force and the local courts and have them try post-election violence suspects.

But it will also hand over those indicted by the International Criminal Court to chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.

And it will change the law to give the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission more teeth besides making its membership more widely accepted.

The Cabinet is desperately divided with some of its members suspected to have either masterminded or funded the election violence in which more than 1,133 people killed and about 650,000 evicted from their homes.

 

Source: Allafrica.com

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