Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Chapters: Omar al-Bashir, Ratko Mladic, Aribert Heim, Joseph Kony, Alois Brunner, Veljko Kadijevic, Ahmed Haroun, Charles Zentai, Ali Kushayb, Okot Odhiambo, Protais Mpiranya, Bosco Ntaganda, Søren Kam, Milivoj A¿ner, Sándor Képíró, Yitzhak Arad, Blagoje Ad¿ic, Dominic Ongwen, Petras Raslanas, Sergei Babin, Mikhail Gorshkow. Excerpt: Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir (Arabic: ¿; born 1944) is the current President of Sudan and the head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi. In October 2004, al-Bashir's government negotiated an end to the Second Sudanese Civil War, one of the longest-running and deadliest wars of the 20th century, by granting limited autonomy to Southern Sudan dominated by the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). Since then, however, there has been a violent conflict in Darfur that has resulted in death tolls between 200,000 and 400,000. During his presidency, there have been several violent struggles between the Janjaweed militia and rebel groups such the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in the form of guerrilla warfare in the Darfur region. The civil war has resulted in over people being displaced, and the diplomatic relations between Sudan and Chad being at a crisis level. Al-Bashir is a controversial figure both in Sudan and worldwide. In July 2008, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo, accused al-Bashir of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. The court issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on 2009 on counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him for genocide. However, on 12 July 2010, after a lengthy appeal by the prosecution, the Court held that there was indeed sufficient evidence for charges of genocide to be brought and issued a second warrant containing three separate counts. The new warrant, as with the first, will be delivered to the Sudanese government, which is unlikely to execute it. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state ever indicted by the ICC as well as the first to be charged with genocide. The court's decision i