Critical analysis on how International Criminal Court (ICC) has failed in fighting impunity case study Kenya.

Abstract

This study critical analysis is how international criminal court ICC has failed in fighting impurity case study Kenya post -election violence 2007/2008. It is mainly concerned with reasons as to international criminal court on failure in trying to bring impurity in Kenya, was specific aims of analyzing the applicability of the Rome statute in ending war, identifying legislative weaknesses, challenges faced by ICC in exercising its mandate in order to provide appropriate interventions for reforms. In comprehension of the study, literature on the specific aims was reviewed from previous writers. The finding of the study show that the challenges exhibited in the effort of the international criminal court trying to apprehend perpetrators of war crime said crimes against humanity. The objective of this study was to bring out the reasons as to why international criminal court has failed in fighting impurity especially during post- election violence in Kenya 2007/2005. The study recommended ICC must secure conviction to ensure its credibility, prosecution by the international criminal court. In one of the few credible threats faced by leaders of warring parties and that impurity should always be a last resort.