The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has arrived in Kenya to investigate the country’s post-election violence.
More than 1,200 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced after a disputed election in 2008.
Luis Moreno Ocampo will meet victims of the upheavals and senior government officials during his five-day tour.
It is his first visit to the country since judges at the ICC gave him the go-ahead to investigate.
Mr Ocampo, who will also meet civil society groups and the business community, says the overall goal of his work is to ensure there is no repeat of the troubles during the 2012 elections.
‘Witnesses threatened’
Following the last disputed vote, the country imploded and powerful politicians as well as wealthy business leaders were accused of organising and fuelling attacks.
The rival politicians signed a peace deal and agreed to set up a tribunal to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators.
But the politicians have thwarted attempts to set it up and no-one has yet been punished.
Mr Ocampo, who flew into Kenya on Saturday, earlier said that politicians from both sides of the fractious coalition government were on his radar.
Many Kenyans are eagerly waiting for those names to be made public, and they hope the prosecutions will help end a deeply rooted culture of impunity.
Mr Ocampo has so far largely relied on documents gathered from other inquiries. Now he needs his own evidence.
Some witnesses say they have been threatened, and several have been moved out of the country for their own protection.
While the ICC prosecutor gets on with his work, Kenya’s politicians have been far more focused on plotting their own political futures. But some may be abruptly stopped in their tracks by Mr Ocampo.
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