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    "content": "This Bill is attractive because it gives visible justice to the victims. The Bill addresses the issue of compensation in a major way. The Bill covers and addresses the issue of impunity. Therefore, if we had our way, we would have an opportunity to try Kenyans who were involved. If this fellow called Mr. Moreno Ocampo came here and said he is only interested in three or four people, they could not have been able to organize the massacre we had in the country. They could be more. Therefore, if the majority will not find the possibility to be tried, this Bill provides the way out. As representatives of the people of Kenya, we are saying that we must be sensitive to those people who are still languishing in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps, two years down the road. It is not an easy matter as some people may think. I chair the Committee on Equal Opportunities which recently visited Rwanda. We visited their memorial sites. Rwanda is just close to us. What happened there could easily happen here. Why should we just brush it aside and pretend that nothing is happening here? Right now, we are discussing the Draft Constitution as though nothing has happened in the past in this country. We must deal with our past in a manner that it will never be repeated. There is a lot of impunity that happened in this country. Personally, I sympathise with all those Kenyans who have been displaced from their homes, particularly those who have left the Mau Complex. We want to get some reasonable justification from the Government as to why people who have lived in the Mau Forest for many years have been evicted even before an alternative land had been found for them. They are now living by the roadside. We, as leaders of this country, are saddened to see on the television screens children and mothers being rained on by the roadside. We belong to the Government that cares. In fact, we have taken this country, unfortunately, to a path that we shall end up regretting. When you take the laws of your country very casually the way Somalia and Rwanda leaders did, it is the Ministers and Presidents who were the first people to take the first flight out of those countries. In fact, if you go to the Daadab Refugee Camp, you will be confronted by a number of former Ministers, generals and Members of Parliament who are now languishing in poverty and desperation. When they were in leadership, they took the laws of their country very casually. My personal position is that the leadership of this country has been taken away. As a Member of Parliament, I suggest that we find a way of getting it back because we have lost it. We are now not in charge of our affairs. We could be in this Parliament talking or a Minister flying a flag, but we have no control over the affairs of this State. It has been taken over; it is now being discussed in Washington DC and in other capitals as though this country has no leadership. The fact that we have failed to use the laws and the Constitution to try crimes that we saw being committed in this country, is an indication of a collective failure of leadership in this country. All of us are guilty of this. I want to thank Mr. Imanyara for giving us an opportunity to reclaim our position. This is an opportunity to see whether, in fact, sense will prevail when we put a special tribunal in place. Sometimes I ask myself whether it is important to do so when I have seen on television screens, somebody hacking a Kenyan to death. Why should we be required to establish a very special tribunal to try that person? Let us be serious as a country and reclaim the leadership given to us by the people of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate the Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review because they have done a good job even though there"
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