Sunday, March 4, 2012

Sudan won't hand over men wanted by world court

Sudan rejected demands Saturday to hand over a cabinet minister and a militia commander indicted on charges of crimes against humanity in Darfur.

State Minister of Information Kamal Obeid was responding to a new call by the International Criminal Court prosecutor for Sudan to hand over Ahmed Harun, a cabinet minister, and Ali Kushayb, a militia commander. Both are accused of organizing a system to recruit, fund, arm and command a militia that terrorized villages in the western Sudanese region.

Speaking to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, the prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, charged for the first time that "the whole state apparatus" of Sudan …

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