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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Neo-Colonization of Kenya: the return of Imperialists as ICC Tribunal charges the Ocampo 6

Counsels, Sir Geoffrey Nice Q.C. and Rodney Dixon, Barrister-at-Law, on behalf of the Government of Kenya, filed an application pursuant to Article 19 of the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), respectfully requesting the Pre-Trial Chamber to determine that the two cases currently before the ICC are inadmissible before the ICC,"
ARE COUNSELS NICE AND DIXON KENYAN?

On 12th February, 2009, Most members of parliament, especially allies to Ruto and Uhuru voted for the Hague and not the formation of a local tribunal. They were very categorical in wanting the Hague process to deal with the post election violence.
ARE PRO-RUTO AND PRO-UHURU ALLIES CONDONING NEO-COLONIZATION?

The Armenian brothers Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargsayan, who hail from Armenia, former USSR, claim that President Kibaki and other top Government officials knew about 'The Standard Media' raid. One of the two infamous Armenian Artur brothers who commandeered The Standard Group raid in 2006 has for the first time directly implicated President Kibaki. Read More
SO, WHO IS ENGAGING OR HIRING FOREIGN MERCENARIES?


Kenya secretly sent four terrorism suspects to Uganda after the World Cup bomb blasts in violation of Kenyan law, and FBI agents interrogated three of them in a manner that broke human rights. The four Kenyans — Hussein Hassan Agade, Idris Magondu, Mohamed Adan Abdow, and Mohamed Hamid Suleiman — were arrested from different locations in Kenya following the July 11 attack that killed 76 people as large crowds watched the World Cup final on TV. Kenya circumvented its own extradition laws to send the four suspects to Uganda.
WHY DID THE KENYAN GOVERNMENT EXTRADITE THEIR OWN CITIZENS TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY?

Even as the government fights to have the Kenya case at The Hague deferred, calling it neo-colonization, some of the Ocampo 6, namely Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, former Police Commissioner Hussein Ali and Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura have actually enlisted the services of international lawyers. Mr Muthaura had sought the services of British lawyer Karim Ahmad Khan who in 1996, led Mr Taylor's defence. Maj-Gen (rtd) Ali had enlisted the services of Canadian John Philpot on his team. And DPM Uhuru Kenyatta has sort the legal expertise of British lawyers Steven Kay and Gilian Kay Higgins who defended Mr Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president. Interestingly, it was Mr Steven Kay who successfully advised the Liberian government on how to secure an arrest warrant against Mr Taylor. Read More
WHY HIRE LAWYERS FROM OUR COLONIAL MASTERS? AREN'T THE KENYAN LAWYERS ON THE LEGAL TEAMS COMPETENT ENOUGH?

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