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More Videos George Clooney arrested at Sudan protest The arrested protesters included congressmen, human rights activists and faith leaders. The second thing, he said, "is for the government in Khartoum to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children. Stop raping them and stop starving them. That's all we ask. Protesters had begun gathering in the street before the protest began and converged on the Embassy once Clooney and the others arrived, holding signs reading "Stop Bombing Civilians Now!

Clooney: War criminals must be famous On Wednesday he testified in front of the Senate foreign relations committee on the subject of violence in the Nuba mountains in South Kordofan, a state in Sudan near its border with newly independent South Sudan.

He told the senators: "We found children filled with shrapnel, including a nine-year-old boy who had both of his hands blown off. Clooney accused Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, government official Ahmad Harun and defence minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, of orchestrating systematic killing in the area. Clooney has called on US officials to pressure the Chinese government to force the government of Sudan to open the southern region of the country to relief efforts.

As the rainy season approaches, large numbers of the region's inhabitants could face starvation. Clooney said he left the meeting optimistic that Obama would pressure Chinese president Hu Jintao to seek a resolution to the region's ongoing conflict at an upcoming meeting. Earlier this month the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Hussein listing 41 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed in Sudan's Darfur region.

Al-Bashir and Harun are also facing charges of war crimes allegedly committed in Darfur. Clooney described the men as "the greatest war criminals of this century by far". He has called on US officials to pressure the Chinese government to push the government of Sudan to open the southern region of the country to relief efforts.

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