New York, US - The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), says Sudan is not co-operating to facilitate the arrests of two war crimes suspects.
The two Sudanese, a top government official and a rebel leader, were alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
The ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who spoke to PANA at the UN, described Sudan's attitude as “totally unacceptable” and called on Khartoum to cooperate “immediately” with the court to bring the suspects to book.
Moreno-Ocampo said one of the two suspects, Ahmad Muhammad Harun, is currently Sudan's Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs.
“He was coordinating actions to remove people from their own villages and push them into IDP (internally Displaced Person) camps, and now he basically controls them,” he said.
“Harun is still in charge, effectively, of the same people. He is like the fox being in charge of the chickens,” the prosecutor noted. Read more >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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