By Stephanie van den Berg

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Prosecutors sought a life sentence for a Janjaweed militia leader convicted of atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region, telling the International Criminal Court on Monday he was guilty of crimes from murder and torture to mass atrocities.

“You literally have an axe murderer before you,” prosecutor Julian Nicholls told a special hearing called to determine a sentence for Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman – also known as Ali Kushayb.

Nicholls said Kushayb, 76, had at one point used an axe to kill two people and described him as an enthusiastic, energetic and effective perpetrator of the abuses carried out in the Darfur region more than 20 years ago.

DEFENCE WANTS SEVEN-YEAR SENTENCE

His conviction in October on 27 counts of war crimes and crimes a

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