HIST 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Uhuru Kenyatta
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Is it reasonable to believe that crimes of this level have occurred and do they fall to these standards. Crimes against humanity: the attack that"s occurring has to be directed against a civilian population, pursuant to a state or organizational policy. After an election, major line between ethnic groups. Police: looting, excessive use of force, but sometimes they helped. Kaul is german so he thinks of crimes against humanity in terms of the holocaust and this may contribute to why he does not think that the icc has jurisdiction in this case. The reason this was bought proprium motu was because the kenyans had 2 years to do something, and they did not. They also didn"t self-nominate themselves to the icc for investigation. Mwai kibaki: rigged the election and won. Ethic groups: luo, kalenjin, kikuyu: the largest kenyan ethnic group (22%)
