For the first time since the crisis in Darfur erupted in 2003, the finger of blame for the atrocities committed there has been pointed straight at the heart of the Sudanese government. By naming Ahmed Haroun — a former state minister of interior — as one of two people suspected of committing war crimes in Darfur, prosecutors for the International Criminal Court have put Khartoum on trial.
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/ 19 February 2007
Four years after the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region started, the search for peace continues. As government planes bombed two more villages, envoys from the United Nations and the African Union arrived in the capital Khartoum. Their task is a difficult one — to try and reduce the level of violence and start a new dialogue between Khartoum and Darfur’s rebel movements.