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Sudan angered by racist slurs broadcast at Bashir . trial
He was charged with war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Court there after pro-government Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed, in the early 2000s, began targeting him. into villages and banished their non-Arab inhabitants – or “Zurga”, the local term for minority black communities. Bashir refused to go to The Hague but denied the charges, saying they were politically motivated.