Annan backs Kenya violence probe

BBC News ^ | October 20, 2008

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Kofi Annan has urged the Kenyan government to set up a tribunal for people accused of involvement in violence after last year's elections.

The former UN secretary general brokered a power-sharing deal which ended the violence in February.

Establishing such a tribunal was a central recommendation of a commission headed by a senior judge, Philip Waki, which submitted its report last week.

The commission found that politicians on all sides had stirred up violence.

Mr Waki also said that the police had used excessive force against protestors.

'No impunity'

The commission gave Mr Annan a sealed envelope containing the names of suspects and he told the BBC he would pass on the information to prosecutors at the appropriate time.

"I think it is important that the government acts on it," he told the BBC's Network Africa. "The victims demand justice too."

"The tendency sometimes to protect the perpetrators for the sake of peace - 'forget and let's move on' - doesn't help society. Impunity should not be allowed to stand."

More than 1,500 people were killed and some 300,000 more fled their homes after then opposition leader Raila Odinga said he had been cheated of victory by President Mwai Kibaki.

Under the deal brokered by Mr Annan, Mr Odinga became prime minister and his Orange Democratic Movement took an equal share of cabinet posts with Mr Kibaki's party.

Mr Annan dismissed the idea that the Kenyan example had set a dangerous precedent for Africa, by encouraging the idea that even if you lose you can still enter a power-sharing coalition.

"The concept of winning or losing elections is something that we should internalise," he said.

"We cannot go and create problems and expect to share power."

He said he thought that Mr Kibaki and Mr Odinga had both gone into

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So, is obama going to be called in to testify?

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Kofi Annan has urged the Kenyan government to set up a tribunal for people accused of involvement in violence after last year's elections.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So the cover up and historical revision begins.

Before Anan's done, there will be no fault resting with Odinga and his move to subject Christian Kenya to Sahria law,no mention of Odinga's ties with the Somali Muslim Council. This is being done so that the supposed next president of America can enter the WOrld Stage with no blood on his hands.Beyons slick.

This is criminal.Genocide happened in Kenya , incouraged by Odinga/Obama's "protests".

Anan needs to get lost and let Kibaki file a crominal complaint with the International Crime tribunal at the Hague, or better yet, have the armed forces destroy Odinga, for it is the armed forces of Kenya that Odinga seeks to traduce and make his own, by having Muslims quietly and slowly take over command of them.

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Can someone please explain to me why Fox News has not reported this?

Whether or not they include Corsi, the Kenyan journals and photographs cover Obama campaigning for Odinga, indisputably.

Anyone explain?

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Mr Annan dismissed the idea that the Kenyan example had set a dangerous precedent for Africa, by encouraging the idea that even if you lose you can still enter a power-sharing coalition.

"The concept of winning or losing elections is something that we should internalise," he said.

"We cannot go and create problems and expect to share power."

Makes you wonder what caused Coffee-Anon to speak out? What does he see that we have missed? Is he AFRAID that if the USofA goes the way of Raila Odinga's Kenyan Thugocracy that he'll lose money in the deal?

Seems to me that most other Nations should be pulling for McCain because if Obama comes to power the USofA won't have the money to help other Nations the way we do now.

Follow the Money.

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