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The Political parties Forum want politicians to steer away from matters touching on the International criminal court and allow justice to take it’s course. Addressing a news conference in Nairobi, the group representing twenty nine political partys say that Kenya needs both the ICC and a local tribunal to try those who fueled the post election violence at different levels and there is therefore no need to lobby for deferral from the ICC process.

An amateur video filmed in Libya appears to show demonstrators injured in unrest, with what seems to be rapid gunfire.

Witnesses said hundreds clashed with police and government supporters in the eastern city of Benghazi. Some 40 people are reported to have been injured.

Opposition leader in exile and a judge at the International Criminal Court, Hadi Shalluf, told euronews: “We’re demanding, first of all, that this regime falls, and a coalition government is formed.

We made this demand to the government a week ago.

The African Union resolved to draft a proposal requesting the International Criminal Court -ICC, to pardon Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir over war crimes. Bashir was indicted by the ICC in March 2009 on two counts of war crimes and five of crimes against humanity.

The International Criminal Court is the world’s first permanent international criminal court, which is established and governed by the Rome Statute, a treaty ratified by 114 countries. It is located in The Hague, the Netherlands.

The adoption of the Rome Statute in 1998 was a historic step, reflecting the determination of the world community to put an end to impunity and to contribute to the prevention of crimes which threaten the peace, security and well-being of the world.

The ICC has jurisdiction over the most serious crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed after 1 July 2002.

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Luis Moreno Ocampo talks about the current investigation in Kenya.

In Sudan voting has continued for a fourth day in the week-long referendum. Officials in the south say the voter turnout has already reached more than 60 per cent. That is the number needed to validate the results of a vote that could split the country in two. There have been reports of troop build-up along the north-south border. Nick Clark travelled to the sensitive South Kordofan to investigate.

VOA’s Vincent Makori talks to the International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo about the reactions as ICC names suspects in the elections chaos.