War crimes in Darfur

8 September 2004: Rebel fighters from the Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) smoke rationed cigarettes at their base in Ulang, Sudan. Photograph: Scott Nelson/Getty Images

August 2004: A young Darfur refugee cries for her mother near her tent in the Oure Cassoni camp, in north-eastern Chad in August 2004. More than 18,000 refugees are in the camp but aid workers warn if the situation in Darfur does not improve soon, thousands more Sudanese could flood into neighbouring Chad, overwhelming the already strained resources Photograph: Scott Nelson/Getty Images

April 2004: A pro-government Arab militia fighter, known as the Janjaweed, in Sudan's west Darfur region near the Chadian border Photograph: Espen Rasmussen/AFP/Getty Images

23 October 2004: A wounded Sudanese man is fanned with cloth to try keep him cool at the MSF (Médicines Sans Frontiéres) clinic in Muhajiriyah, south Darfur. The MSF clinic, which treats all wounded irrespective of their allegiance, has received several casualties from all sides of the conflict as well as civilians Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA

September 2004: An armed Sudanese rebel from the JEM arrives at the abandoned village of Chero Kasi, less than an hour after Janjaweed militiamen set it ablaze in Photograph: Scott Nelson/Getty Images

21 June 2004: A father carries the body of his one-year-old son Ali for burial at el-Geneina refugee camp, western Darfur. The boy died of malnutrition. More than 80,000 displaced people have reached Mornay to try to escape ethnic violence in the Darfur region. After surviving massacres by janjaweed, the refugees are now virtual prisoners in the camp, with the militias controlling the camp periphery, staging attacks and rape on villagers who venture out lookign for food Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP

12 October 2004: Achmed Mohameed About returns to his village of Hila Abrahim, Darfur, after a roving band of Janjaweed attacked and burned down his home. He and his family escaped Photograph: Benjamin Lowy/Corbis

21 May 2006: Rebels from the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) occupy a deserted house in Tina, a small village abandoned by its residents after being attacked in March, south-west of El Fasher, the capital of the war-torn Sudanese northern Darfur region Photograph: Ramzi Haidar/AFP

June 2006: A woman who has recently given birth holds her baby inside her shelter at ZamZam camp, a camp for refugees at El Fasher, northern Darfur. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

30 September 2007: A destroyed dormitory smoulders after an attack on the African Union camp in Haskanita. Rebel forces stormed a small AU base in northern Darfur, killing 10 peacekeepers in an unprecedented attack Photograph: Stuart Price/AP

October 2007: JEM fighters drive their armoured car at an unknown location on the Sudan-Chad border in north-west Darfur. Peace talks to end four years of violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur opened in Libya, but the chances of success were dimmed by the 11th-hour pullout of most rebels Photograph: Stuart Price/AFP/Getty Images

23 April 2007: Darfur survivor Ibrahim holds human skulls at the site of a mass grave where he says the remains of 25 of his friends and fellow villagers lie, on the outskirts of the west Darfur town of Mukjar Photograph: Nasser Nasser/AP

October 2007: The remains of a bed smoulder a day after homes were destroyed in heavy fighting in Muhajariya, southern Darfur Photograph: Stuart Price/AFP/Getty Images

22 July 2007: Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir waves a cane at a rally during his visit to war-torn and famine-hit Darfur region of El Fasher. This is Bashir's first visit since the start of the four-year conflict. He recently agreed to allow the deployment of 3,000 UN peacekeepers to support the 7,000-strong AU contingent Photograph: Philip Dhil/EPA

May 2007: A man rides into a sandstorm from violence-plagued Darfur into eastern Chad. More than 200,000 people have fled from the Khartoum-backed Janjaweed militia to their unstable neighbour Chad Photograph: Stephen Morrison/EPA

19 June 2008: Refugees from Darfur gather water at a well as a dust storm approaches Djabal camp near Gos Beida, eastern Chad Photograph: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters

July 2008: A man walks past a gutted village home in Kafod, north Darfur. Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has asked a three-judge panel at the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur Photograph: Stuart Price/Albany Associates/AP

3 March 2009: A supporter of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir holds a defaced poster of ICC prosecutor Ocampo at the inauguration of the Merowe Dam in northern Sudan, about 220 miles)north of Khartoum. ICC judges were due to respond to Ocampo'ds request for an arrest warrant Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters