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WASHINGTON, May 13 (UPI) -- A top Sudanese official failed to show up for a meeting in Washington with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi E. Frazer.
Frazer was in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, last week for intensive talks that led to a tentative peace agreement on Darfur. Sudanese Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti -- who had been scheduled to meet with Frazer at the State Department on Friday -- has been linked by human rights groups to violence in Sudan's Darfur region, The Washington Post reported.
Human rights groups say Karti was head of the Popular Defense Forces, a paramilitary group that fought alongside the Janjaweed militia during a campaign of terror that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Some experts have said Karti's name is on the secret list of 51 names referred by the United Nations to the International Criminal Court for possible war crimes prosecution. He has been a key public figure in rejecting the jurisdiction of the war crimes court.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (UPI) --
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HARRISBURG, Pa., June 3 (UPI) --
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