The persons accused as guilty of these crimes and accordingly named as defendants in this case are:

Omar al-Bashir has the dubious distinction of being one of Parade Magazine's "10 worst Dictators" in 2006. He was "born into a peasant family in the small village of Hosh Bannaga, 150 kms north of the capitol of Khartoum. He joined the army as a young man, studied at military college in Cairo. He became a paratrooper, serving with the Egyptian army in the 1973 war against Israel. Back in Sudan, al-Bashir led a series of successful assaults on the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA, the southern Sudan militia). He was appointed General only 20 years after military college.

In a coup, al-Bashir toppled Sadeq al-Mahdi's democratically elected government in 1989 - "to save the country from rotten political parties" as he later said. With the backing of Hassan al-Turabi, the fundamentalist leader of the National Islamic Front (NIF), the General immediately took steps to "Islamicize" the state. Al-Bashir dissolved the parliament, banned all political parties and shut down the press. He stepped up his scorched earth policy in the south, and dismissed opponents as "agents of imperialism and Zionism." In March, 1991, he imposed Sharia, Islam's very strict religious law, pleasing his associate al-Turabi who was appointed speaker of the country's pieced together parliament.

Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation. Took by force the posts of chief of state, prime minister, chief of the armed services, and minister of defense.

• Harbored and aided terrorists and Islamic extremists.
• Launched military attacks against citizens of southern Sudan. Human rights violations include torture, rape, murder of women and children. Millions of southerners were displaced, starved and deprived of education and healthcare.
• Agreed to a six-year peace agreement under international pressure in 2004, which provided for a split of oil revenues between the north and the south and allowed southerners to vote for independence in six years.
• Encouraged and abetted attacks against Darfuri people by Janjaweed, including displacement, murder, rape and mutilation; burning of villages.

Ali Osman Taha (also transliterated "Othman" or "Uthman") has been the first Vice President of Sudan from 1998 to the present. He was the country's Foreign Minister for three years prior to becoming Vice President.

Taha has worked to establish cease-fires with rebel groups in the country and claims "I do not seek power. All I want is for all political forces to come together and act for the common good." He also claims that the body count of the Darfur conflict reported by the UN is wildly inaccurate and that there is no evidence of atrocities committed by the Janjaweed.He is the chief public relations man for the Sudanese regime, and is the spokesman for genocide denial.
When Taha expressed a desire to resign his post in early 2004, President Omar Al-Bashir convinced him to remain because he would "be needed in the coming phase" of their political efforts to keep U.N. peacekeeping forces out of Sudan.
Various sources allege that his administration has supported the Janjaweed in their activities in Darfur.

Interior Minister General Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein was the “shadow head of the army at the time of the 1989 coup that brought the National Islamic Front to power; after the coup, secretary to the Revolution Command Council that suspended the 1985 Constitution, abrogated press freedom, disbanded all political parties and trade unions, and endorsed ethnic militias as a weapon of war…

Under his plan, the government of Sudan would complete its redrawing of the ethnic map of Darfur. African farmers burned out of the countryside by the army and the Janajweed would be herded into concentration camps where they would exist as a slave underclass under permanent threat of arms."
(Source: http://www.axisoflogic.com)

Salah Abdala Gosh is the director of Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Services. When Osama bin Laden found haven in Sudan from 1990 to 1996, Gosh was his personal government minder. Last year, Ken Silverstein of the Los Angeles Times detailed extensive counterintelligence cooperation between Gosh and the CIA, and reported that the CIA even flew Gosh to CIA headquarters on a private jet to swap trade secrets.
The quality of the intelligence that the CIA obtains from Gosh is unclear. But what is widely known is Gosh’s role in devising Khartoum’s counterinsurgency-by-genocide strategy for Darfur. He is Sudan’s answer to Heinrich Himmler -- the organizational mastermind upon which every genocide depends. Gosh is behind the recruitment of the local janjaweed militia; the well-known coordination between government forces and the janjaweed; the harassment of aid workers; and, as the leader of Sudan’s security services, he bears responsibility for the arbitrary detentions and torture committed by his officers in Darfur.
(Source: www.prospect.org)

Musa Hilal. In early interviews, Musa Hilal, the head of a small, but powerful Darfurian Arab tribe denied being in the military chain of command. “I am a tribal leader…the government call to arms is carried out through the tribal leaders.” Hilal maintains residences both in Khartoum and in Darfur.
Later, Mr. Hilal, widely regarded as the top Janjaweed leader in Darfur, was interviewed over the course of several hours by Human Rights Watch researchers in Khartoum.
Hilal now admits that the government of Sudan has directed all military activities of the militia forces he recruited. “All of the people in the field are led by top army commanders,” he told Human Rights Watch on videotape. “…These people get their orders from the Western command center, and from Khartoum.”
(Source: www.hrw.org/video/2005/musa)