Sudan: ICC reports evidence of large-scale massacres

The chief prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has told the UN Security Council that investigators have uncovered evidence of "large-scale massacres" in Darfur, Sudan, but stopped short of labeling the situation there "genocide". Attacks on villages and refugee camps by Khartoum-backed Arab militias have killed as many as 400,000 people over the past three years, and left another 700,000 homeless and without access to humanitarian relief.