Posted by: zanshin, 2008-07-15 12:27

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Date: 2008-07-14 (Monday)
In the Hague, the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo charged Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur, killing 35,000 people and persecuting 2.5 million refugees.

Moreno-Ocampo charged Bashir with three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape, and two of war crimes.






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