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The majority of the judges of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) Trial Chamber V dismissed the Prosecutor's case against William Ruto that he incited the post-election violence of 2007-2008.
One of the central planks of the ICC case against William Ruto was that from 2005 right through to 2007, at "no fewer than ten public rallies", William Ruto called for the expulsion of the Kikuyu, Kisii and Kamba communities from the Rift Valley. At these public rallies, attended by thousands of people, the Prosecutor alleged that William Ruto and "other Network members...laid the groundwork for their plan to evict the PNU supporters from the Rift Valley".
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