May 2 (Reuters) - Judges at the International Criminal Court have issued arrest warrants for two suspects accused of war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region, the ICC said on Wednesday. Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked pre-trial judges to issue summonses for Ahmed Haroun, state interior minister during the height of the Darfur conflict, and militia commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb. Here are some details on them: * Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb. -- ICC prosecutors say Kushayb, a colonel in the Wadi Salih locality of west Darfur, commanded thousands of Janjaweed militia and personally led attacks on towns and villages. -- Human Rights Watch quoted witnesses as saying Kushayb was one of the key leaders of the attacks on villages around Mukjar, Bindisi, and Garsila in 2003-2004. HRW said several witnesses recognized him as a commander of operations in March 2004, in which several hundred men were executed. -- Sudan said in February that Kushayb had been in detention in Khartoum since November 2006 on suspicion of violating Sudanese laws and was under investigation for actions in Darfur.
* Ahmed Haroun. -- Haroun was state minister of interior, a post below the full ministerial level, during the height of the conflict and is currently state minister of Humanitarian Affairs. -- ICC prosecutors say security committees in Darfur made up of representatives of the Sudanese army, police and intelligence agencies reported to Haroun, especially on matters relating to the staffing, funding and arming of the Janjaweed. -- Prosecutors said: "Haroun knowingly contributed to the commission of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, rape, torture, inhumane acts, pillaging and the forcible transfer of civilian populations."
Sources: Reuters/Human Rights Watch/All Africa:
