ICC prosecutor wants Kenya violence investigation

Thu, Nov 5 03:58 PM

Enlarge Photo A Kenyan anti-riot policeman wrestles with an opposition supporter during post-elections demonstrations in the Nairobi's...

International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Thursday he believed crimes against humanity had been committed during Kenya's 2008 post-election violence and he wanted to open an investigation.

"I explained to them that I consider the crimes committed in Kenya were crimes against humanity, therefore the gravity is there. So therefore I should proceed," he told a joint news conference with President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

"So I informed them, in December I would request to the judges of the International Criminal Court to open an investigation and that is the process established by the Rome Treaty," he said.

(Editing by David Clarke)

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