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He has been charged by the International Criminal Court with committing war crimes and genocide there after pro-government, horse-riding Arab militias, known as Janjaweed, in the early 2000s started targeting villages and driving out their non-Arab residents - or "Zurga", the local term for ethnic black communities. Bashir refuses to go to The Hague but denies the charges, saying they're politically motivated.