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Taha. Taha was quoted as saying to commanders of the
Janjaweed militia, "I don't want one single village of Zurgas in Darfur. All the Zurga lands are yours." After an attack by the Janjaweed militia and the Armed Forces in the town of Kyla, a survivor from the Fur tribe reported that the attackers sang, "Hail the name of Allah, our orders came from Ali Usman Taha."
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In 2005 Taha opposed holding trials outside Sudan after 51 individuals were accused, by a United
Nations commission of inquiry, of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Taha argued that doing so would "push things to degenerate rather than help people to reconcile or maintain peace." In 2008, Taha
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by arguing that, "We can't go along with implementing the CPA or other agreements with a president that is subject to international trial." In the same year, the
Associated Press quoted reliable sources saying Taha would be charged with crimes similar to those that President Omar al-Bashir had been
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and was instrumental in releasing Hilal from prison in 2003. Taha apparently assigned Hilal the authority to recruit and command a militia group, which became known as "Quick, Light and
Horrible Forces of Misteriha." Government help for Hilal was reported to be very open and was coordinated through
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Taha is mentioned several times in the application of arrest for
President Omar al-Bashir, submitted by Luis Moreno Ocampo, prosecutor of the ICC. For example, Commissioner Rabeh told Janjaweed militia commanders that the General Commander in Khartoum and Taha ordered the provision of armament for
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in May 2010 in spite of speculations that he would be replaced by a more hard-line NCP member or a
Darfurian. Taha was viewed as a moderate figure in the NCP regime and a possible successor to Bashir, although some have suggested that Bashir might have preferred that his successor be a hard-liner.
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which brought Africa's longest civil war to an end on 9 January 2005. The agreement capped an eight-year process to stop the civil war, which since 1983 had taken 2 million lives. Starting in
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Taha was responsible for handling the Darfur crisis from 2003 to 2004. Community leaders in Darfur have reported that Taha holds personal ties with
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