Sudan: Sudan Rejects ICC warrants on Darfur

The International Criminal Court (ICC), based in the Netherlands, issued its first warrants Wednesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region. 'The ICC judges ruled that there is sufficient evidence on the merits of the prosecutor's case and reasonable grounds to believe that the two individuals are responsible for murder, rape, torture, the forced displacement of entire villages, and other war crimes against humanity', Marie Okabe, deputy spokesperson for U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon, told reporters.