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Article: Sudanese government to put 160 Darfur war crime suspects on trial
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 13, 2005
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Sudanese government to put 160 Darfur war crime suspects on trial
KHARTOUM, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese Minister of Justice Ali
Mohammed Othman Yassin announced here Monday that some 160 war crime
suspects in western region of Darfur would be tried before a special
criminal court set up on Saturday.
"The prosecution comprising of five councillors from the attorney
general's office has been formed" with Nimr Ibrahim Mahmoud as
chairman, Yassin told a news conference.
He said that the special criminal court would be an alternative to
the Hague-based International ...