Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoUnifeed
UN / ICC KENYA
STORY: UN / ICC KENYA
TRT: 2.40
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 OCTOBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
10 OCTOBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Med shot dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul Noormohamed, Legal Officer, Kenya Program, Open Society Initiative for East Africa (OSIEA):
“What happens when a state refuses to cooperate and that state is the situation country? We are all grappling with that issue exactly, what precedent is this case setting? If for examples the judges decide, and they may, that we are going to terminate this case because you don’t have enough evidence. So what happens if another country X president is indicted and they need evidence from country X, and country X decides not to cooperate? So that is the million dollar question.”
5. Med shot, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stella Ndirangu, Program Manager, International Cooperation, International Commission of Jurists-Kenya (ICJ-Kenya):
“It was quite clear to us that from the get go that he was going to attend and was not going to appeal the decision, he was going to actually attend the status conference, partly because he has, President Kenyatta has been embraced largely by the international community as a President despite the charges that he continues to face for the ICC. That is quite different from how President Bashir has been treated.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Haron Ndubi, Member, Kenyans for Peace Truth with Justice (KPTJ):
“Kenya doesn’t seem like it’s pushing this amendment seriously, though we suspect that the reason they have kind of cooled their heels is to wait for the outcome of the decision by the chamber after this status conference, after which we shall see, a, a renewed vigour, or probably they will let the matter die, depending on the outcome of the status conference.”
9. Med shot, photographer
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul Noormohamed, Legal Officer, Kenya Program, Open Society Initiative for East Africa (OSIEA):
“President Kenyatta apparently abandoned his title as President and he took his title back when he came back to Kenya, but the thousand Kenyans who died cannot take their lives back. This is why we say that for those of us who still can, is to remind the government, to remind everyone, that we need justice, and the ICChas been the only place where those victims can see something happen.”
11. Zoom out, end of presser
ICC - 8 OCTOBER 2014, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
12. Various shots, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya in court
Abdul Noormohamed, of the Open Society Initiative for East Africa (OSIEA) today (10 Oct) said that if the International Criminal Court (ICC) judges decide to terminate the case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, it could set a negative precedent for future cases.
During a press conference at UN Headquarters, Noormohamed said “what happens if another country X president is indicted and they need evidence from country X, and country X decides not to cooperate? So that is the million dollar question.”
Kenyatta appeared on Wednesday before the ICC, the first sitting head of state to do so.
At the same press conference, Stella Ndirangu of the International Commission of Jurists-Kenya (ICJ-Kenya) commented on Kenyatta’s decision to attend Wednesday’s status conference at The Hague in person. She said “It was quite clear to us that from the get go that he was going to attend and was not going to appeal the decision, he was going to actually attend the status conference, partly because he has, President Kenyatta has been embraced largely by the international community as a President despite the charges that he continues to face for the ICC.”
Ndirangu said that this was “quite different” from the way Sudanese Omar al-President Bashir “has been treated.”
Bashir is accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Darfur, and has refused to appear in front of the court.
Haron Ndubi of Kenyans for Peace Truth with Justice (KPTJ) spoke of a proposed amendment by the Kenyan government to change sections of the Rome Statute including a clause granting legal immunity to sitting heads of state.
Ndubi said “Kenya doesn’t seem like it’s pushing this amendment seriously, though we suspect that the reason they have kind of cooled their heels is to wait for the outcome of the decision by the chamber after this status conference, after which we shall see, a, a renewed vigour, or probably they will let the matter die, depending on the outcome of the status conference.”
Noormohamed noted that Kenyatta temporarily abandoned his title as President to attend the ICC status conference, “and he took his title back when he came back to Kenya.”
But, he said, “the thousand Kenyans who died cannot take their lives back. This is why we say that for those of us who still can, is to remind the government, to remind everyone, that we need justice, and the ICC has been the only place where those victims can see something happen.”
Kenyatta is charged, as an indirect co-perpetrator, with five counts of crimes against humanity consisting of murder, deportation or forcible transfer, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts allegedly committed during the post-election violence in Kenya in 2007-2008.
Download
There is no media available to download.
