Yesterday the reality of the Hague hit home for the first time for many Kenyans. However anyone who had carefully been following the Hague proceedings would have told them that there would be confirmations of charges for some, if not all of the suspects. It's a new reality in my country, that now we are being tried by the International Court for crimes against humanity. A crying shame for a country whose banner since inception has been Peace. A crying shame that Kenyans let their guard down and were caught napping, ending up in the Hague, causing our beloved nation untold embarrassment. Because, if any nation deserved to be portrayed to the world in this way, Kenya definitely was not it. And, because, if only we had behaved ourselves maturely at the last general election, this would never have happened. And because we failed to realize just how putting ourselves at the mercy of the outside world can be a painful experience.
Anyway, it has now happened and all we can do is watch and wait for the long, burdensome trials that we must forbear - so much shall we be daily bombarded with the proceedings by our broadcasting houses. And this we can't escape seeing as it's a national affair that touches all of us whether we like it or not, whether we care or not.
Seeing as Kenya has gone through this injustice of international humiliation, having already born the scars of post election violence, we shall bear our cross as a nation, and pray that the guilty will be punished while the innocent are acquitted: And pray that this painful experience will somehow lead to the healing, and maturing of our nation: And pray that we shall never again see election or post election violence, nor indeed the inside of the Hague or wherever else such a court may be constituted.
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