Tuesday, December 13, 2005

BBC NEWS | Africa | Sudan bars Darfur atrocity probe

BBC NEWS | Africa | Sudan bars Darfur atrocity probe: "udan's government says it will not allow international investigators into the troubled province of Darfur to collect evidence on alleged war crimes.

The ban comes as the chief prosecutor from the International Criminal Court told the UN Security Council that he wanted more co-operation from Sudan.

Luis Moreno Ocampo said he had identified mass killings and rape but had not decided who to prosecute.

Some two million people have fled their homes in the three-year Darfur war.

Sudan's Justice Minister Muhammad Ali al-Mardi told the BBC that the ICC had no jurisdiction to try Sudanese nationals.

'We have the national law authority... The government is willing and able to try to these cases,' he said."

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