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| ICC seeks arrest warrant for Sudanese defense minister |
| 2011-12-02 |
| The ICC's chief prosecutor has requested an arrest warrant for Sudan's defense minister on war crimes charges. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein helped to mastermind attacks against villages in Darfur between August 2003 and March 2004. Hussein was Sudan's interior minister at the time. A statement says the attacks followed a pattern in which the villages were surrounded, bombed by the Sudanese air force, then attacked by troops and the Janjaweed militia, who murdered and raped villagers. A panel of judges must now review the evidence and decide whether to issue a warrant for Hussein's arrest. |
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