VOA Correspondent Gabe Joselow says the group has called for further investigation of those whom it claims are responsible for the abuses.
In the past five years, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission held 600 meetings across the country. The commission collected over 40,000 statements. It gave its final report to President Kenyatta late last month.
The Commission was formed after the violence that followed the Kenyan elections in 2007. It investigated human rights abuses committed by Kenyan officials since the country became independent in 1963.
President Kenyatta and his top aide -- William Ruto -- are both named in the report. They are accused of inciting and providing financial support for the violence five years ago. But the Commission did not call for action against the two men. They are already facing trial at the International Criminal Court for the same crimes.
Bethuel Kiplagat is the head of the Commission. He says he hopes the report helps the country look to the future.
“The whole purpose of (the) Truth, Justice, Reconciliation Commission is to find a closure -- a closure to issues related to violations, gross violations of human rights, murders, rape, abduction, marginalization, whatever.”
The report names hundreds of people accused of involvement in abuses including economic crimes and political assassinations.
Bethuel Kiplagat is named in the report. He is accused of taking part in the “Wagalla Massacre” in 1984. Hundreds -- possibly thousands -- of ethnic Somalis were killed by government forces at an air field in northeast Kenya.
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