KENYA said on Monday it was reviving investigations into 72 murders as well as allegations of forced eviction and arson during post-election violence in 2007-2008 after victims and their families came forward to give statements.
The fighting in late 2007 and early 2008, some of the worst in Kenya’s history, erupted after Raila Odinga, then an opposition leader, accused then-President Mwai Kibaki’s party of stealing the election.
About 1,300 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced from their homes in the ensuing battles.
Uhuru Kenyatta, now president, and his deputy William Ruto were among six Kenyans charged at the International Criminal Court over their alleged roles in the deadly inter-ethnic violence.
Kenyatta and Ruto both denied the charges and their cases collapsed due to insufficient evidence.
It was not immediately clear why victims had come forward with statements now, more than four years after those cases were concluded,
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