FACTBOX-Some details on ICC Darfur indictees
(Reuters) - Judges at the International Criminal Court have issued arrest warrants for two suspects accused of war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region, the ICC said on Wednesday.
Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked pre-trial judges to issue summonses for Ahmed Haroun, state interior minister during the height of the Darfur conflict, and militia commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb.
Here are some details on them:
* Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb.
-- ICC prosecutors say Kushayb, a colonel in the Wadi Salih locality of west Darfur, commanded thousands of Janjaweed militia and personally led attacks on towns and villages.
-- Human Rights Watch quoted witnesses as saying Kushayb was one of the key leaders of the attacks on villages around Mukjar, Bindisi, and Garsila in 2003-2004. HRW said several witnesses recognised him as a commander of operations in March 2004, in which several hundred men were executed.
-- Sudan said in February that Kushayb had been in detention in Khartoum since November 2006 on suspicion of violating Sudanese laws and was under investigation for actions in Darfur.
* Ahmed Haroun.
-- Haroun was state minister of interior, a post below the full ministerial level, during the height of the conflict and is currently state minister of Humanitarian Affairs. Continued...
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