For years, Mohammed Ali has been hearing relatives and friends tell how government-backed militiamen torched villages in his native Darfur, raped women and shot fleeing civilians. The painful past and present have become a way of life for Ali and his tribe, so much so that the news that the president of Sudan has been indicted on genocide charges seems to leave him cold. "I just want to see peace in Darfur. Nothing else," said Ali, a father of eight who came from Darfur to live in the capital, Khartoum, as a child. The 55-year-old laborer is not unique in his indifference to the International Criminal Court prosecutor's decision Monday to seek the arrest of President Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges. There was no spontaneous outpouring of support for the country's ruler of 19 years. The only protests and rallies so far have...
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