Kenya on Thursday transferred new information, about the violence that followed presidential elections in 2007, to an international court trying to decide whether it should investigate the matter, according to dpa. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is conducting a preliminary investigation into the violence, which claimed more than 1,500 lives and displaced 300,000 people over allegations of electoral fraud. "If the Kenyan parliament does not reach an agreement to establish a specific judicial mechanism to deal with the problem, the Kenyan government has committed to referring the case to the ICC by June 2010," ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said. The violence erupted after supporters of current Prime Minister Raila Odinga claimed he had been cheated out of victory in the December 2007 presidential elections against President Mwai Kibaki. The UN-sponsored court said Kenyan attorney general Amos Wako transferred two reports about the violence to Moreno Ocampo on Tuesday. One was a status report on a witness protection programme. The second dealt with crimes committed during the post-election violence.
