Int’l court orders Kenyan presidential hopefuls to stand trial in postelection violence case

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By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, January 23, 6:03 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — International Criminal Court judges on Monday ordered four prominent Kenyans, including two potential presidential candidates, to stand trial for allegedly orchestrating a deadly wave of violence after their country’s disputed 2007 presidential election.

Among the four suspects sent for trial were Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former Education Minister William Ruto, who both are planning to run for the presidency this year.

Kenyatta, 50, is the son of Kenya’s founding president, Jomo Kenyatta, and the country’s richest citizen, with a personal fortune of half a billion dollars. Ruto is a former ally of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, but the two had a falling out — partly over Ruto’s insistence on making his own presidential bid this year.

More than 1,000 people were killed in postelection violence in Kenya after police ejected observers from the center where votes were being tallied and the electoral body declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner.

more;http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/international-court-4-out-of-6-kenyan-suspects-to-face-trial-in-postelection-violence-case/2012/01/23/gIQAHJ5WKQ_story.html

[Blacksheep214]

1. Someone accused them of secretly being born in America

and they didn't like it?

[krispos42]

2. And the freepers heads explode...

...as they try to reconcile their hatred of the ICC with the tempting thought of Obama being tried in the Hague.