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. AP Photo logo AP Photo 1 month ago

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.

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo, left, stands next to Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga as he addresses the media 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.
  12. The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo, left, adjusts his tie next to Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and 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.
  13. Ahn Soo-chul, a son of North Korean defector Kim Hae-young plays during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial. The group is to fly to The Hague next week to file its petition calling for an investigation at the International Criminal Court, the first such move on the North Korean rights issue, a lead activist said.
  14. North Korean defector Kim Hae-young weeps during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial. The group is to fly to The Hague next week to file its petition calling for an investigation at the International Criminal Court, the first such move on the North Korean rights issue, a lead activist said.
  15. North Korean defector Kim Hae-young weeps during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial. The group is to fly to The Hague next week to file its petition calling for an investigation at the International Criminal Court, the first such move on the North Korean rights issue, a lead activist said.
  16. North Korean defector Kim Hae-young, left, and South Korean lawyer Lee Ji-hae participate in a press conference with a huge screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial. The group is to fly to The Hague next week to file its petition calling for an investigation at the International Criminal Court, the first such move on the North Korean rights issue, a lead activist said.

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