FACTBOX-Who is Luis Moreno-Ocampo?

Nov 5 (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he will ask the court to open an investigation into last year's post-election violence that killed 1,300 people and uprooted more than 300,000.

Here are some facts on Moreno-Ocampo, 57, and the ICC:

* ICC:

-- The names of 10 Kenyans suspected of being behind the violence are held by Moreno-Ocampo but have not been revealed. Analysts and local media say the list includes prominent sitting cabinet ministers, members of parliament and business people on both sides of the country's political divide.

-- Analysts say the ICC already has reams of evidence and once it decides to act, arrest warrants could follow quickly.

-- Last March the ICC issued an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in the first indictment against a sitting head of state. He was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

-- In October, Moreno Ocampo said he was investigating September's deadly crackdown on opponents of Guinea's military ruler, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara. At least 157 people were killed and 1,200 injured when security forces attacked tens of thousands of protesters calling for Camara to step down.



* ROAD TO ICC:

-- Between 1984-92, as a prosecutor in Argentina, Moreno-Ocampo was involved in the prosecutions of military commanders for mass killings and other serious human rights abuses.

-- He was the deputy prosecutor in the trial of army commanders accused of masterminding Argentina's dirty war, and other human rights violations. They were convicted but later released under a presidential amnesty. -- In 1992, he resigned as chief prosecutor of the Federal Criminal Court of Buenos Aires and established a private law firm.

-- He was legal representative of victims in the extradition of former Nazi Erich Priebke to Italy, the trial of the chief of the Chilean secret police for the murder of General Carlos Prats, and several cases concerning political bribery, journalists' protection and freedom of expression.

-- In April 2003, Moreno-Ocampo was elected unopposed in a ballot of the more than 70 countries which ratified the ICC's founding statute.



LIFE DETAILS:

-- Moreno-Ocampo was born in June 1952 in Buenos Aires in Argentina.

-- His career as a public servant includes positions at Transparency International, an anti-corruption organization. He has also been hired by the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank to help governments fight corruption.

-- He has been a Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School. Before that, he was a visiting professor at Stanford University's Latin American Center in Palo Alto, California.

Sources: Reuters/ www.hoa-politicalscene.com (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: africa.reuters.com/ ) (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)