Tim Murithi

Dr. Tim Murithi is Head of Programme at the Institute for Security Studies Office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and author of The Ethics of Peacebuilding (Edinburgh University Press); and The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development (Ashgate). He has held posts at the Universities of Bradford and Cape Town, the UN Institute for Training and Research and as a consultant for the African Union.

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Friday, July 17th, 2009

The Spectre of Impunity and the Politics of the Special Tribunal in Kenya

On 9 July 2009, Kofi Annan the former chief mediator in the aftermath of Kenya’s post-electoral violence, transferred an undisclosed list of senior politicians to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. These politicians are alleged to have committed crimes against humanity during the post-electoral violence between December 2007 and February 2008. What prompted Annan’s actions?

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