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Let’s face it, Ocampo has done us a favour as a nation
Posted Monday, December 20 2010 at 00:00
A problem that simply will not go away. An insistence on justice that will not be fobbed off with inquiries that trickle off into nothingness.
A demand for personal accountability that cannot be shoved under the carpet of unnamed, unashamed state responsibility.
No wonder they are shocked.
This has, quite simply, never happened before. And they do not know what to do other than what they have always done.
Which is to get all conspiratorial and try to get the ethnic-political troops behind them.
It’s the old arguments about external interference, foreign enemies and plots against their supposedly communal political interests all rolled into one.
It would be quite funny — if it were not so sad. It would be quite funny — if it were not so starkly evident from their antics just how little the victims and survivors of all of this matter to them.
Because of all this, no matter what happens with the cases as we go forward, the Prosecutor has done us a favour as a nation.
No matter what happens with the cases, something has been broken by last week’s announcement.
And something has irrevocably shifted. Justice is possible.
L. Muthoni Wanyeki is executive director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission
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