Kenyatta (51) and Ruto (46) has long promised that they will continue to work together to refute ch

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Kenya's president and his deputy are en route to The Hague as concerns increase friction will flare up again in communities torn apart by a post-verkiesingsbloedbad more than five years ago.
Deputy President William Ruto go on trial at the International Criminal Court to stand for crimes against humanity, followed by Uhuru Kenyatta President in November, while members of their two distinct ethnic groups fear that it could open old wounds.
Their victory in this year's peaceful election under the Jubilee Alliance has done little to heal the ethnic hatred on the ground between Kenyatta's Kikuyu and Kalenjin tribes Ruto's, after a disputed 2007 outcome, wanted the matter resolved by force.
It makes East Africa's largest economy on tenterhooks, agexport where tribal loyalties a decisive role in politics and play drives violence. It also worries the West, a stable Kenya considered crucial to regional security and the fight against militant Islam.
For the International Criminal Court, this is the first trial involving a sitting president is charged and his biggest test so far as they were established in 1993. The ICC gets increasing opposition from Africa, where it is seen as a biased institution that only blacks apart.
The alliance between Kenyatta and Ruto have bought time said residents agexport of the western town of Eldoret, near where about 30 Kikuyus to death were burned in a church by a Kalenjinbende is on fire.
After a parliamentary agexport vote last week demanded that Kenya withdraw from the Hague court's jurisdiction analysts believe that Nairobi political cover construction for the two men to stop their participation in the trial, but diplomats see as a move as unlikely.
Kenyatta (51) and Ruto (46) has long promised that they will continue to work together to refute charges of crimes against humanity. In addition, any decisions in Kenya take years to implement and the upcoming trial can not stop.
"The two believe they can win at trial," said Macharia Munene, a university lecturer in Nairobi. "The court also has a poor record of convictions," he said, referring to the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga. - Reuters
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How is it that only dictators and failed dunghill countries, mainly in Africa, ever be brought before the Hague court? When will the real magsvergrypers and warmongers, as the Obamas and the Blairs, a little on the turn? Is it because the stuff in deep dark Africa over the same quality spin doctors and media, they can not be elevated to godstatus? Or is it because the African dictators at worst, enthusiastically participate agexport or allow the least just from the sidelines when genocide is happening in their countries? In that case, when does the Mandelas and Zumas then to turn?
Or GW Bush Jnr. His own aircraft loaded and flown stuck in the towers and of the soldiers who died in afganistan? agexport What Flat Wheel deklerk, Mandela and even old two two. Mandela and two two for all the people who died in their so-called "liberation" and old flat wheel for all the murders since '94, because he and she said