Photo Gallery A Wanted Man
A file photo from April 2004 of Terbeba, a village in the western Darfur region of Sudan after it had been burned down by the pro-Sudanese government "Janjaweed" militias. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is accused of having armed and paid the Arab mounted militias so that, after the bombings, they could murder people in the settlements, drive them out and systematically rape the women.
Civil war victims at a camp for refugees in southern Sudan. The United Nations estimates around 300,000 people died and at least 2 million were forced to flee their homes in Sudan's Darfur region between 2003 and 2008. Bashir describes as "baseless" war crimes accusations against him. "Of course there were crimes, even horrible crimes, but it's the same everywhere in the world where armed gangs cause trouble and oppose the government," he says.
There are currently 30,000 United Nations peacekeepers present in southern Sudan. "If the situation in Sudan stabilizes and the peace holds up," Bashir says, "UN troops will no longer be needed. But if foreign soldiers remain in the country after fulfilling their mission, it will only create problems."
