William Ruto ICC trial thread.

William Ruto ICC trial thread.

Mhh hii video naona itaiweka icc ktk njia panda. Maana naona Ruto naye amejipanga
 
sasa kama wana ushahidi huu wote ni kwa nini wanafikia mpaka hatua ya kujitoa ICC?
Si wangeling'ang'ania kubaki huko ili ukweli ujulikane!? Kwa hakika siasa zinahitaji watu wasafi pia.
 
Sijasikia au kuona sehemu Odinga anasema wauweni wakikuyu au kalenjins..kwa nini wajaluo hawakuwauwa wakikikuyu? Was it a war between luos and kikuyus..hii ni weak defence..kama ruto anataka odinga nae awajibishwe then anatakiwa ku admit makosa alafu aseme alitumwa na odinga au odm..the same goes to uhuru,akubali makosa alafu kibaki nae awajibishwe,naona wanatafuta wa kufa nao....mnyukano wa wakalenjen na wakikuyu ni hasira za toka 1992 toka enzi za youth for kanu na ruto alikuwa mmoja wa viogozi wao..historia ipo wazi kabisa..
 
Deputy President of Kenya Goes on Trial in The Hague



William Ruto, left, the deputy president of Kenya, speaking with his co-defendant, the radio executive Joshua arap Sang, on Tuesday at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Pool photo by Michael Kooren

By NICHOLAS KULISH
September 10, 2013


NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s deputy president, William Ruto, rose before the International Criminal Court for the start of his trial on Tuesday and three times — once for each charge of crimes against humanity facing him — repeated the words “Not guilty.”

With Mr. Ruto’s appearance before the court in The Hague for his role in the violence that rocked the country after the disputed 2007 election, a process began that could influence not only the future of Kenya but also of the much-criticized tribunal as well.

The scrutiny will continue to intensify, particularly once the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, joins Mr. Ruto in facing charges before the court in November. It will be the first time a sitting president has appeared before the court to stand trial.

The case represents a pivotal moment for the court, and one that is not without risks. The tribunal finds itself the object of significant ire in Kenya and elsewhere on the continent because all eight of the cases on its docket are from Africa. Earlier this year, the African Union accused the court of targeting Africans.

Kenya’s Parliament voted last week to withdraw from the court, but the government has yet to act on the resolution and Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Ruto have continued to cooperate. Some questioned whether they would do so after the vote, but Mr. Ruto, accompanied by dozens of members of Kenya’s Parliament, flew to The Hague on Monday and appeared voluntarily in court Tuesday morning.

“This is not a trial of Kenya or of the Kenyan people,” the chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, told the court in her opening statement. “It is not about meddling in African affairs. This trial, Mr. President, Your Honors, is about obtaining justice for the many thousands of victims of the postelection violence.”

The election in 2007 set off ethnic clashes across the nation that claimed the lives of more than 1,100 people and displaced some 600,000. Prosecutors say that the violence was orchestrated by political and community leaders, including Mr. Ruto and his co-defendant, Joshua arap Sang, an influential radio executive.

The postelection clashes “were not just random and spontaneous acts of brutality,” Ms. Bensouda told the court. “On the contrary, this was a carefully planned, coordinated and executed campaign of violence.”
Karim Khan, Mr. Ruto’s principal defense counsel, responded that the charges against his client “would be shown to be patently false.”

“One cannot escape the reality that this investigation has been exceptionally deficient,” he said.

The case has divided Kenya. Supporters and victims’ advocates say that the prosecution strikes a blow against impunity. Opponents describe the case as a humiliation and infringement on Kenyan sovereignty.

Opinion surveys show that support for the trial here has fallen off significantly. The video feed of the trial, posted by the court with a 30-minute delay, was broadcast on Kenyan television. The topic trended all day on Twitter here.

The court announced that Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Ruto would not have to be in The Hague at the same time, heading off a practical concern for the governance of Kenya.

Once political opponents, Mr. Kenyatta, a prominent member of the Kikuyu ethnic group, and Mr. Ruto, a leader of the Kalenjin group, teamed up in the most recent election and their Jubilee Alliance won the vote in March. That election proceeded relatively peacefully. Many fear that the prosecutions in The Hague could upset the fragile balance here and set off renewed instability or violence.

Even on the opening day of Mr. Ruto’s trial, it was apparent that the proceedings would lay bare the ethnic divisions that have plagued Kenya’s electoral politics and helped lead to the violence that swept the country in 2007 and 2008.

“The prosecution will demonstrate that Mr. Ruto and his syndicate of powerful allies, including his co-accused, Mr. Sang, sought to exploit the historical tensions between Kalenjin and Kikuyu for their own political and personal ends,” Ms. Bensouda said.

In the aftermath of the disputed vote, homes were set on fire and attackers hacked victims to death with machetes. In one case, people were burned alive in a church where they had sought refuge.

“Victims I represent look up to you to counter their neglect in the criminal justice system and to usher in a truly victim-centered international criminal justice system,” said Wilfred Nderitu, who represents the victims before the court. “They have traveled a long road and witnessed many attempts at scuttling the criminal justice process.”

Mr. Ruto did not react as the charges against him were read. Mr. Sang swiveled back and forth in his chair and at one point shook his head. Mr. Sang was described by Ms. Bensouda as “the main mouthpiece used by Mr. Ruto to spread his message.”

The court took up the prosecution after the Kenyan justice system failed to do so. But the case has proved challenging.

Witnesses have been killed or were afraid to testify, and a witness recanted after accepting money to withdraw his testimony, Ms. Bensouda has said. In March, the prosecution withdrew charges against Mr. Kenyatta’s co-defendant, Francis Kirimi Muthaura, who was accused of helping organize death squads.

Mr. Ruto has long disputed the charges against him, saying that they are politically motivated.

“There is a rotten underbelly of this case that the prosecutor has swallowed hook, line and sinker,” his lawyer, Mr. Khan, said, “indifferent to the truth.”

Deputy President of Kenya Goes on Trial in The Hague - NYTimes.com
 
Initially, Uhuruto's 3 weekly blitz was going to create a Constitutional issue, and definitely a power vacuum, at least symbolically. The duo were also likely to both be out on December 12th, a day they badly want to use to wave the anti-colonial flag. This is a day set aside to bash the convenient boogeymen – Brits – who are blamed for insisting that PEV must be punished.

Ahmednassir has already started character-assassinating the British journalist (William Pike), a co-owner of the Star newspaper. It is a silly season where independent media must be intimidated from reporting the naked truths spilling from the Hague. Non-pliant White folks must be labelled spies and espionage agents. The coded dog whistle to the tribal base - ahead of anticipated chilling details from the court - is, "msisome hiyo Star, ni gazeti ya waKoloni! "
This is essentially a sophisticated form of economic intimidation and sabotage, wrapped around anti-colonial protectionism targeting British-owned media. This economic warfare is surreptitiously unfolding in the financial and other sectors as well. We are officially touted as now facing East. The anti-ICC, anti-West propaganda is in full gear. It will likely be coordinated and regulated via the good ‘ol Daily Nation, NTV, K24, and KTN safely under good hands of Uhuru's handlers – as exemplified by their choreographed performance during the last presidential election. The pro-Jubilee media rarely seeks truth about the dalliance with China.
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Uhuru's angry and emotional saber rattling at his Ruiru backyard was a choreographed prelude to a new 4-weekly ICC case roster - which will now have the suspects intermittently alternating between the dock and Ikulu at different times. Uhuru will rule for 4 weeks followed by Ruto another 4 weeks. Each suspect will endure a subdued 4 weeks of chilling revelations at the Hague followed by 4 weeks of saber rattling at home. Its gonna be a rocky ride for sure, where Jubilee's rhetoric of national unity will unravel in real time on camera.

Watch out for the following:
1) Possible eventual absconding by one suspect.
2) Possible emphasis of OTP on Ruto's case – thanks to archived evidence from none other than Kibaki's men at NIS (formerly NSIS).
3) A gradual rise in international interest in these cases as the Syrian situation slowly diffuses.

 
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[h=1]Suspect's mood changes as clerk lays out the case[/h] MP lets out a loud murmur as audio of prosecution's video fails, attracting attention of security



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Deputy President William Ruto seemed relaxed, and at times bemused, as Presiding Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji went through the opening motions on the Kenyan case.


But then he suddenly seemed to sit up and pay attention when the court clerk laid out the detailed charges against him and co-accused Joshua Sang.

He had been fiddling with his pen and appeared to be doodling on a piece of paper, then suddenly leaned forward with his hand over his mouth as if suddenly realising the gravity of his situation.

Yet, later in the morning session before a short break, Mr Ruto seemed totally relaxed, even affording a smile and shared a laugh with a lawyer seated next to him after a video from an IDP camp put on by the prosecution failed to play.

SEEMED TO SAVOUR

Another moment that Mr Ruto seemed to savour was when a prosecuting counsel Anton Stynberg played a video from one of his campaign rallies ahead of the 2007 elections.

The prosecution contended that the rallies were used to incite Kalenjin people in the Rift Valley against Kikuyu settlers who had allegedly been targeted for eviction.

But the video had no sound, prompting Mr Ruto's lawyer Karim Khan to shoot up asking for audio. Mr Stynberg explained that there was no need for sound because the language spoken at the function was not English, but went ahead to clarify that the particular video disclosed no offences of hate speech, incitement to violence or Kalenjin ethnic mobilisation that formed the core of the charges.

At that point, a member of the audience in the public and press gallery-one of the MPs who accompanied Mr Ruto-let out an audible murmur that had the security orderlies moving to the front.

The interruption was not heard or seen by the judges as the gallery is separated from the courtroom by sound-proof one-way glass.

DRIVEN TO THE STEPS

Those were some of the highlights of the morning session as the historic case took off at the ICC Tuesday.

Mr Ruto had been driven to the steps of the courtroom a half hour before the trial started in the company of a retinue of MPs flown in a show of solidarity.

His co-accused, Mr Sang, cut a more lonely figure as he was dropped off alone to tell the jostling press pack that he was just an "innocent journalist".

The hearing began a few moments after the scheduled 9.30am commencement with introductions from the bench, the prosecution, defence teams, counsel for the victims and the court clerks and registry staff.

Judge Eboe-Osuji, flanked by judges Olga Herrera Carbuccia and Robert Fremr, went through a history of the case starting with the 2007 post-election violence and intervention of the Kofi Annan mediation team.

He also highlighted recommendations of the Justice Philip Waki Commission and the Kenya's failure appoint a local justice mechanism prompting entry of the ICC as a court of last resort.

Suspect
 
Nyani Ngabu said:
Mi nazungumzia Kenya na Afrika. Ya Ulaya yamekujaje sasa?
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Ahaaa,,,Ulaya haimo katika hii dunia.

Enyi waafrika,,,enyi nyinyi ambao,, hamjioni kama
nyinyi ni wanadamu kama wengine,,,enyi nyinyi mliotarajia
kuona Kenya ikihaibika,,kimataifa,,,,mtahaibika nyinyi wenyewe,
mtakapo vumbua kumbe mlikosea.

Yenu ni chuki,,,mlivalishwa miwani na wakoloni na chochote
mnacho ona Afrika,,,mwaona kulingana na vile mkoloni alitaka
muone.

Sasa mumekua mkiongea kuhusu,,mnyama ajjulikanae kama
justice,,,,,,,,which justice when there is no justice in
this world.

Ni wapi katika hii dunia tuliwahi kuona watu wakitoa
ushahidi dhidi ya viongozi wao?????

Pili,,kama hao mashahidi ni wa ukweli na si wa 'kukochiwa':smiling:
kwani wako wapi,,,,ni ni wanaloliogopa,,,kwa wana faa kuwa
wamepewa uhifadhi inje ya Kenya,,hawana sababu ya kuogopa.

Tuliwambia lakini hamukusikia,,,kwamba,,,mnapo zungumzia
Kenya,,,mchukue tahadhari sana,,,kwani Kenya,, yule
ambae ana jifanya malaika,,kwa ukweli ni Ibilisi mkubwa.

Na yule mnaambiwa ati ni shetani,,,,kumbe ni malaika.

Haya,,tuko Hague,,,wengi walisema Hague ni mwisho
wa Kenya.

Hebu tuone ni nani,,ATAKAE CHEKA MWISHO:smiling::smiling:,,,,

Ni Raila, Obama, Ulaya, Bensouda, Kiai,,,, AMA,,

UHURUTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:smiling: NA

KENYA

Eti justice,,,,,Ulaya,,,,,,,,aghhhhh,,,my foot.
 
Deputy President William Ruto jetted back into the country on Thursday morning from The Hague, Netherlands where he attended his trial before the International Criminal Court. .......................................................................................................................... Deputy President William Ruto jets back from The Hague - Politics - nation.co.ke ............................................................................................................................
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Many,,especially those Africans,,in white skins or those led by pure hatred,,are asking,,

What is happening.

And i will tell you what is happening.

That the prosecution side is not yet prepared,,,,knowing very well that they
had all the time,,,,all the resources put forward by the great powers,,,so as to
jail,,these village African leaders,,,Uhuru and Ruto.

But,,here we are at the Hague,,,the case commences and the next day,,the
prosecution side pleads for adjournment because,,,,

Their witnesses have not,,yet,,,arrived.

Bensouda had been,,, all this time,, concentrating on having Uhuru and Ruto
detained at Hague,,commenting all the time that UhuRuto will be treated as
any one,,,,all this time swearing that she had incriminating evidence,,,,,,,
but now,,she looks as if she was not prepared,,,,that,,well.

The court has expressed it's displeasure with the kind of unpreparedness
on the side of the prosecution.

We can see,,just from the beginning of this case,,,that something,, somewhere
on the side of the prosecution,,,is very very wrong.

Will they,,still,,blame this on Uhuru and Ruto. She has,,all the rights in this
world,,to look for scapegoats.

In the morning,,the first day of the case,,,the prosecution side presents
a video,,,,without sound,,,showing those meetings where Ruto incited
people to violence.

In the Afternoon,, defense lawyer,,Karim Khan,,for William Ruto,,, present
the same video,,,but now with sound,,where Ruto is preaching peace
and harmony.:confused2::shut-mouth::confused2:

I love it,,,this the kind of justice,,,only to be found in a European country,,,,
but only in the Hague.

Long live international justice. Long live,,,,,Ben Ben mama,,bint,,,,,sundaaaa:smiling:

It is ICC on trial,,now,,and not Kenya.

I love Kenya,,,,we do not have,,now,,to advertise it. Let ICC do,,this noble job,,,
with its own resources,, of putting Kenya,,up there,,for every one,,to see.

After that good job by the ICC,,,let it be,,overhauled,,so as to be able to serve
everyone,,under the sun,, and not few powerful countries of this world who,,,,,
very infuriating,,,are not,, even members of this foolish organization.
 
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