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ICC Charges Sudan President With War Crimes - The Los Angeles Times

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Date: 
Mar 5, 2009
Author: 
Edmund Sanders
Reporting from Khartoum, Sudan -- In a challenge to one of Africa's most defiant strongmen, the International Criminal Court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president on charges of war crimes in Darfur, a quest for justice that immediately complicated relief efforts for hundreds of thousands of people and raised the specter of more violence.
 

A three-judge panel found that President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir "intentionally directed attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians and pillaging their property," ICC spokeswoman Laurence Blairon said.

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