Traditional justice systems as viable mechanisms for transitional justice.

Abstract

In 2007, Kenya descended into ethnic-induced riots and upheavals which left a model nation bereft with insecurity and political turmoil. I This was due to the infamous 2013 general elections which were fraught with rumours that there was massive electoral rigging.? This elicited a knee-jerk reaction from the opposition which rejected the results with haste and called for mass action.' Ethnic cleansing ensued. By the end of the chaos, more than a thousand people reportedly lost their lives with over six hundred thousand rendered internally displaced." The carnage, is reported to have been perpetrated by actors on both sides of the political and ethnic divide.'