By Evelyn Leopold
(Reuters) - U.N. Security Council members intend to press Sudan to arrest two suspects accused of war crimes in Darfur by the International Criminal Court, Belgium's U.N. ambassador said on Thursday..
The ICC issued arrest warrants in February for Ahmad Harun, a former state minister of interior, and Ali Kushayb, a militia leader, charged with mass executions, rapes and forcible evictions of thousands of people.
Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who addressed the Security Council, said global pressure was needed to make Khartoum turn over the two men. The Security Council asked the ICC in 2005 to investigate atrocities in Darfur. Read more >>>>>>>>>>>>
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