In news from Sudan, a senior leader of the Janjaweed militia in Sudan has claimed in a rare interview that the Sudanese government asked the militia to supply 300,000 fighters to attack civilians in Darfur. The militia leader, Musa Hilal, told Human Rights Watch in a videotaped interview in Arabic “These people get their orders from the western command center, and from Khartoum.” The Bush administration has described the mass killing of Sudanese civilians in the Darfur region as a genocide. But the Sudanese government has maintained it is not behind the attacks. Musa Hilal is widely regarded as the top Janjaweed leader in Darfur but he denies any leadership role and says his followers have not committed atrocities. However sources at the United Nations say Hilal is on a list of 51 people suspected of “heinous crimes” in Darfur that should be tried at the new International Criminal Court.