The Song of the lowly- Justice comes home!

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    The reactions of vistims of ethnic violence in Kenya after International Criminal court took over the case to convict masterminds

    The Song of the lowly- Justice comes home!

    Hague, Hague,
    Grandma would shout -“Od Ang’enge”[1]
    Come you slowly to slug,
    Your hot belly, is unfilled,
    Your claws are sharpened,
    Your target is marked.
    You have trained your eyes on the sleuth,
    He who manipulated, the home justice,
    To favour him in his quest for offence

    oh for now, it's sweet music to the lowly
    for justice comes home!!

    Your have made bare, his injudiciousness,
    His felony, not known before,
    Now remains clear, for he clothed them then
    With masks unknown to the lowly;
    But now oh Hague, you’ve made the lowly
    Shout “at last at last, justice comes home”
    When you exposed the hiding situate,
    Of the despot

    oh for now, it's sweet music to the lowly
    for justice comes home!!

    Now I know,
    He who circumcised my father with the hew,
    And then cut his throat with the hacksaw,
    Then entered between the thighs of my mother
    And did the abomination, my siblings the observers
    And sent them all to the maker, through the flames
    Of the house, set blazes,
    he marvelled as the fury flames,
    Gulped, the souls who knew not their offences,
    But now, oh Hague, at last at last,
    Justice comes home!

    oh for now, it's sweet music to the lowly
    for justice docks ashore!!
    [1] Luo personification for jail house

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