KNCHR was vigilant before and after the 2007 elections

Impunity does not spring from nowhere. It is fed, and when it remains unchecked it spirals into uncontrollable levels. What happened in Kenya after the 2007 General Election was unprecedented in the country’s history leading to the International Criminal Court’s intervention. The road to The Hague was not ad-hoc, but a result of many processes before and after the elections. One has to look at the context in totality to understand how, as a country, we ended up being the fifth situation before the ICC. The complexity of processes leading to where we are started as unchecked actions of impunity that went beyond control.

The impunity-lined road can be traced far back in history, but in the pre-The Hague past, the referendum campaigns of 2005 come to mind as a time accountability was sought from leaders in the manner in which they conducted themselves.