The ICC’s deputy chief prosecutor Nazhat Shameen Khan on Monday said she was ending further investigations into the post-election violence Kenya.
The decision ends a 13-year legal saga which involved senior Kenyan politicians.
Rubble from destroyed houses and shops litter a street in the Kibera slum during protests in Nairobi, December 31, 2007 is Police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday as President Mwai Kibaki began a second term after a disputed vote that has convulsed Kenya, hurt its democratic credentials, and brought a rising death-toll. © Reuters
In 2010, the Hague-based tribunal started probing post-election fighting in the eastern Africa nation in which prosecutors said 1,300 people died and some 600,000 others were left homeless.
Initially, six suspects faced charges of crimes against humanity, including murder and deportation.
The suspects included former and current Kenyan presidents Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto.
But former chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda withdrew the charges against Kenyatta in 2014 and in 2016 the case against Ruto was stopped too, after judges said the prosecution’s evidence was too weak.
The case against all six collapsed due to a lack of evidence.
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