The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor today said he would seek new indictments next month against top officials after accusing Sudan's "entire state apparatus" of involvement in crimes in Darfur.
Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo's address to the UN Security Council coincided with a visit by envoys to Darfur, scene of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
Mr Moreno Ocampo said Sudan was not co-operating with the ICC and was taking no action of its own against the two, government minister Ahmad Harun and militia commander Ali Kushayb.
Instead, he said, Sudanese officials had waged an "organized campaign . . . to attack civilians" in Darfur.
"The evidence shows that the commission of such crimes on such a scale, over a period of five years, and throughout Darfur, has required the sustained mobilisation of the entire Sudanese state apparatus," Moreno Ocampo said.
Judges at the ICC, set up in 2002 in The Hague as the world's first permanent court to try individuals for war crimes, issued arrest warrants for two Sudanese suspects in April last year, but Khartoum has refused to hand them over.
The prosecutor said that in July he would present ICC judges with evidence against those who were "most responsible for the crimes described." He gave no names.
Sudan's UN ambassador accused Moreno Ocampo yesterday of preparing a "fictitious and vicious case" that would wreck the peace process for Darfur, where the United Nations and African Union are deploying peacekeepers.
International experts say at least 200,000 people have died there and 2.5 million been displaced since a rebellion erupted in 2003. Khartoum says 10,000 people have been killed.