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Has crime of genocide been committed in Kenya?.

http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=25&newsid=114404

Lets stick to the legal definition of genocide. According to Article 6 of the statue setting up the International Criminal Court which is the only permanent international body that can prosecute the crime genocide involves acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.

The definition is both wide and narrow. It is wide because perpetrators need not intend to destroy the entire group to be guilty. Destruction of only part of a group, such as members settled in one area, is enough.

It is narrow because the crime can be committed to only national, ethnical, racial or religious groups. In other words, it does not include political, economic, and other groups. For example, police shooting rioters to death is not genocide, though it may be murder.

Nobody doubts that many innocent people have been killed. However, the conclusion that genocide is happening or about to happen, would not stand the scrutiny of international law.

That, of course, does not mean that other crimes, such as crimes against humanity, have not been committed.

 

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