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Kenya’s National Commission on Human Rights has released its report into January’s post-election violence. Entitled On the Brink of the Precipice, the report (promised to appear on the KNCHR website shortly) concludes that some of the violence was premeditated, financed by local politicians and business people, and included crimes against humanity. Naming planners and perpetrators, and making recommendations on changing [...]

The following was in yesterday’s New York Times. Interested to hear views on this debate.
July 17, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist [link]
Prosecuting Genocide
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Many aid workers and diplomats suffered a panic attack when the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court sought an arrest warrant this week for the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for [...]

Here is somebody who can give us hope. Since New Year’s Day, Kenyan environmental and womens rights activist, parliamentarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai has made a series of powerful statements about the ongoing crisis in her country.
On the Green Belt Movement’s website, she helps to explain what is happening by reminding us [...]