The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo, left, looks on as Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, center, address the media next to Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, right, at the office of the President in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Luis Moreno Ocampo says he will ask a pre-trial chamber in December to allow him to formally open an investigation into the violence that took place between December 2007 and February 2008. AP Photo logo AP Photo 1 month ago

The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo, left, looks on as Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, center, address the media next to Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, right, at the office of the President in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Luis Moreno Ocampo says he will ask a pre-trial chamber in December to allow him to formally open an investigation into the violence that took place between December 2007 and February 2008.

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  1. Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (C) meets Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki (R) and Prime Minister Raila Odinga (L) in the capital Nairobi, October 7, 2009. International Criminal Court (ICC) trials are needed for leaders of last year's post-election violence in Kenya alongside a local tribunal for lesser offenders, Annan said on Wednesday.
  2. Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (C) talks to Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki (R) and Prime Minister Raila Odinga (L) in the capital Nairobi, October 7, 2009. International Criminal Court (ICC) trials are needed for leaders of last year's post-election violence in Kenya alongside a local tribunal for lesser offenders, Annan said on Wednesday.
  3. Former UN Secretary general Kofi Annan (R) leaves on October 5, 2009 the offices of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki (unseen) in Nairobi. Annan who met with Kibaki and Prime Minister, Hon. Raila Odinga urged the coalition government under the two principal rivals in Kenya's disputed elections of 2007, to do more to implement reforms and avoid a resurgence of last year's post-election violence. Annan's visit comes amid international pressure in recent weeks to implement constitutional, electoral, judicial, police and land reforms in a bid to stem a recurrence of the slaughter following the controversial poll that saw some 1,500 kenyans killed in tribal clashes and more that 300,000 displaced.
  4. Former UN Secretary general Kofi Annan (C) waves on October 5, 2009 to the press outside the offices of Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki (unseen) in Nairobi. Annan who met with Kibaki and Prime Minister, Hon. Raila Odinga urged the coalition government under the two principal rivals in Kenya's disputed elections of 2007, to do more to implement reforms and avoid a resurgence of last year's post-election violence. Annan's visit comes amid international pressure in recent weeks to implement constitutional, electoral, judicial, police and land reforms in a bid to stem a recurrence of the slaughter following the controversial poll that saw some 1,500 kenyans killed in tribal clashes and more that 300,000 displaced.
  5. Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (L) meets Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki (C) and Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the capital Nairobi October 5, 2009. Kenyans want their coalition government to take concrete action on impunity and political reforms to avoid a repeat of last year's post-election violence, Annan said on Sunday.
  6. Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki attends a lunch during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Port-of-Spain November 28, 2009.
  7. Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki (L) and Prime Minister Raila Odinga (R) pose with the FIFA World Cup on its arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta airport in the Kenya's capital Nairobi, November 12, 2009, during the tour of the cup that will take it to 54 African countries, ahead of the 2010 event to be held in South Africa.
  8. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, left, and Kenyan Prime minister Raila Odinga hold the FIFA soccer World Cup Trophy after it arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, from Kigali, Rwanda, for a two-day stop over en route to South Africa where the 2010 finals will be held.
  9. Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga gives an interview with AFP on November 7, 2009 in Nairobi. The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on November 6 it had assigned three judges to consider a prosecution request for an inquiry into Kenya's post-poll violence, which claimed about 1,500 lives in December 2007. The move came a day after ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he would ask the court's judges to order a probe into Kenya's worst post-independence unrest. Some 1,500 people were killed and another 300,000 displaced in a matter of weeks following presidential polls in December 27, 2007, in which then opposition chief Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of having stolen the vote.
  10. Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga gives an interview with AFP on November 7, 2009 in Nairobi. The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on November 6 it had assigned three judges to consider a prosecution request for an inquiry into Kenya's post-poll violence, which claimed about 1,500 lives in December 2007. The move came a day after ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he would ask the court's judges to order a probe into Kenya's worst post-independence unrest. Some 1,500 people were killed and another 300,000 displaced in a matter of weeks following presidential polls in December 27, 2007, in which then opposition chief Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of having stolen the vote.
  11. Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga gives an interview with AFP on November 7, 2009 in Nairobi. The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on November 6 it had assigned three judges to consider a prosecution request for an inquiry into Kenya's post-poll violence, which claimed about 1,500 lives in December 2007. The move came a day after ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he would ask the court's judges to order a probe into Kenya's worst post-independence unrest. Some 1,500 people were killed and another 300,000 displaced in a matter of weeks following presidential polls in December 27, 2007, in which then opposition chief Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of having stolen the vote.
  12. Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga gives an interview with AFP on November 7, 2009 in Nairobi. The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on November 6 it had assigned three judges to consider a prosecution request for an inquiry into Kenya's post-poll violence, which claimed about 1,500 lives in December 2007. The move came a day after ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he would ask the court's judges to order a probe into Kenya's worst post-independence unrest. Some 1,500 people were killed and another 300,000 displaced in a matter of weeks following presidential polls in December 27, 2007, in which then opposition chief Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of having stolen the vote.
  13. Luis Moreno Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, speaks during a press conference at Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Ocampo says he wants to move quickly to try the perpetrators of Kenya's 2007 postelection violence to prevent future conflict. Ocampo said he plans to present two to three cases for trial possibly by July next year so that Kenya will go to its next election, due in 2012, without the threat of violence.
  14. Luis Moreno Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, speaks during a press conference at Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Ocampo says he wants to move quickly to try the perpetrators of Kenya's 2007 postelection violence to prevent future conflict. Ocampo said he plans to present two to three cases for trial possibly by July next year so that Kenya will go to its next election, due in 2012, without the threat of violence.
  15. The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo, left, shakes hands with Kenyan President Mwai Kibak as Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, right, looks on at the office of the President in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Luis Moreno Ocampo says he will ask a pre-trial chamber in December to allow him to formally open an investigation into the violence that took place between December 2007 and February 2008.
  16. The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo, left, Kenyan President Mwai Kibak, center, and Prime Minister Raila Odinga pose for a photograph at the office of the President in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Luis Moreno Ocampo says he will ask a pre-trial chamber in December to allow him to formally open an investigation into the violence that took place between December 2007 and February 2008.

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