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Warrants Issued for 2 Darfur Suspects

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:45:27 PM
By MIKE CORDER

 Ahmed Muhammed Harun gives a press conference at the presidential palace in Khartoum, Sudan in this undated 2006 file photo.    The former Sudanese junior interior minister responsible for the western Darfur region who was named as a suspect for war crimes in Darfur by the International Criminal Court's prosecutor Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007 Ahmed Muhammed Harun and a janjaweed militia leader were suspected of a total of 51 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf, File)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Sudanese government's humanitarian affairs minister and a janjaweed militia leader suspected of committing war crimes in Darfur, the court said Wednesday.

Sudan responded that it had no intention of handing over the two men, and it appeared unlikely either suspect would surrender.

Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo called the warrants a crucial step toward bringing atrocities in the Sudanese region before a panel of international judges in The Hague.


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