Good People !!!
The following Chinese statement directed to
UK and US sounds challenging and provocative and it is
unacceptable.
Chinese
interests in Kenya are corrupt and toxic.
Their activities are against public interest and mandate and are not
within the policy establishment of the Constitution of Kenya.
The
kind of direct outburst shows they are afraid their butt-naked will be exposed
along with their illegal special business interest network that have brought
pain and sufferings to the people of Kenya.
Their influence in Kenya has not brought anything good but destruction on
fundamental fabric of livelihood and survival.
They are afraid they shall be exposed at the ICC Hague on matters that
are of Human Rights Crime, Violation, Abuse with Environmental pollution and
that their butt will be on fire?????........and are they therefore, sounding a
threat to challenge US and UK......????
The
Chinese must beware that US and UK have vested interest in Kenya for the good of
both countries and that Kenya victims have rights for fair Justice where the law must be seen to be done in the most favorable and fair manner. It is therefore that, the Chinese Government
must watch how they conduct themselves on matters that are of Public interest
and mandate and watch how they engage and communicate.
Kenya’s security, livelihood and survival are
paramount of crucial concern to the people of Kenya and the world; and no amount
of conspiracy theories on fear factor, intimidation, manipulation or foul-play
shall be tolerated.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson &Executive Director for
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
email: jbatec@yahoo.com
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Anger after Kenyan ICC trial witness 'outed' online
NAIROBI (AFP) – A woman who appeared as a protected witness in the crimes against humanity trial of Kenya's vice president has been named by local media and bloggers, prompting a stark warning from the Hague-based tribunal.
The woman was the prosecution's first witness in the case against William Ruto, and she delivered a harrowing testimony to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday. She was referred to only as "Witness P0536," her face pixellated and voice distorted.
But within hours of the court session, relayed live on several Kenyan television stations, viewers began speculating on her real identity on Twitter and other social media.
By Wednesday, scores of posts on Twitter gave her supposed real name, while one Kenyan blogger and the website of a tabloid newspaper even published photographs they said were of the witness. Several comments also denounced the woman as a "liar."
The ICC said it may take legal action.
"Any revelation of the identity of a witness whose identity has been protected... amounts to an offence," the ICC's presiding judge Chile Eboe-Osuji said. "Such conducts will be investigated and the culprits will be prosecuted."
The judge said the warning applied to "everyone inside the courtroom, in the public gallery, in Kenya, and anywhere in the world," and urged "members of the press, bloggers, social media members or participants and their web hosts... to desist from doing anything that would reveal or attempt to reveal the identity of protected witnesses."
Rights groups were also furious.
Amnesty International said it was "deeply concerned", urging "the ICC and the Kenyan authorities to take effective measures to protect the safety and well-being of this witness and her family."
"The publication, if correct, amounts to a serious breach of an order made by ICC Judges barring the disclosure of the identity of the first witness," Amnesty's Deputy Africa Director Sarah Jackson told AFP.
The Kenyan Human Rights Commission, an independent NGO, said other witnesses could now back out of the trial.
"Now that a witness has been identified it will be difficult to assure others that they are their family members will be safe. And in Kenya, it's not just the nuclear family: there are aunts, uncles, cousins," said spokeswoman Beryl Aidi.
"Witnesses are bound to feel that their family and their extended family may be in danger and might want to withdraw."
The witness had broken down in the Hague court as she recounted how a machete-wielding mob of "around 3,000" youths had trapped some 2,000 people hiding inside a church and set it ablaze.
The prosecution alleges the resulting massacre was part of a plan of ethnic violence orchestrated by Ruto to "satisfy his thirst for power" after disputed 2007 elections. In all, more than 1,000 people died in the post-poll unrest, the worst since Kenya's independence in 1963.
The ICC, which has also charged Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for allegedly masterminding a campaign of murder, rape, persecution and deportation. His trial is due to start in November, and like Ruto he contests the charges.
According to a Western source, who asked not to be identified, around one-third of the witnesses originally scheduled to testify for the prosecution in the Ruto case have pulled out.
"The risk of collapse is credible," the source said.
Kenyan political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi said the exposure was a major setback for ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.
"The ICC prosecutor is extremely naive because she assumed that putting the witness behind a curtain and distorting the voice was enough," he told AFP, noting that the court's first trial, that of DR Congo warlord Thomas Lubanga, had also been dogged by witness protection issues when former child soldiers were initially expected to testify in court with him present.
In an interview prior to the start of the Ruto trial, Richard Dowden, a writer, journalist and head of the Royal Africa Society, said the ICC risked being severely damaged.
"If the cases... were dropped because of witnesses who appeared credible, and were taken by the ICC to be credible, have withdrawn, then I think the credibility of the ICC would take a big hit because they were not able to protect the witnesses," he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/18/anger-after-kenyan-icc-trial-witness-outed-online/#ixzz2fX4hfinG
Woman: My life is in danger for being branded as ICC witness in Kenya's deputy pres. trial
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya – A Kenyan woman says she fears for her life after her photo was circulated on social media and on blogs claiming she was the first witness — whose identity was hidden — to testify against Kenya's deputy president during his trial at the International Criminal Court.
Rahab Muthoni says she reported her fears to police late Wednesday.
The attempt to reveal the identity of the first witness prompted the presiding judge in the ICC trial of William Ruto to issue a stern warning Wednesday against witness intimidation and revealing the names of protected witnesses testifying in the case.
Ruto, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and broadcaster Joshua Sang face crimes against humanity charges for allegedly orchestrating the postelection violence in 2007-08 that killed more than 1,000 people.
Rahab Muthoni says she reported her fears to police late Wednesday.
The attempt to reveal the identity of the first witness prompted the presiding judge in the ICC trial of William Ruto to issue a stern warning Wednesday against witness intimidation and revealing the names of protected witnesses testifying in the case.
Ruto, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and broadcaster Joshua Sang face crimes against humanity charges for allegedly orchestrating the postelection violence in 2007-08 that killed more than 1,000 people.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/19/woman-my-life-is-in-danger-for-being-branded-as-icc-witness-in-kenya-deputy/?intcmp=obinsite#ixzz2fX5cExPb
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