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July 5, 2008 5:40:29 PM CDT



Facebook Used to Search for Darfur Criminals

Posted Apr 25, 08 5:50 PM CDT in Technology World    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – A humanitarian group is using Facebook to search for two war criminals involved with genocide in Darfur, the BBC reports. The War Crimes Watch List issued an open call on the social network for sightings of Ahmed Haroun and Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Rahman, who face 51 counts of crimes against humanity for allegedly planning atrocities by Janjaweed militias.

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Sudanese Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs Ahmed Haroun, seen in a 2004 photo, has been indicted by an international tribunal for his role in organizing genocidal militias in Darfur.   (AMRO MARAGHI/Getty Images)
The Facebook logo is displayed at a news conference in New York in this November 6, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, file)
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