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ICC probes Kenya violence

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The International Criminal Court has given the green light for their chief prosecutor to investigate and charge people suspected of organizing, funding or carrying out the late 2007, early 2008 post-election violence in Kenya. But for the past two years potential key witnesses of the violence and human rights defenders claim that they have been threatened and intimidated...

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