The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he has enough evidence to broaden the indictment of Omar al Bashir. He says he can also prove that Sudan's president committed genocide.

 
Luis Moreno Ocampo urged the ICC’s appeals chamber to "determine that there are reasonable grounds to believe that president al Bashir is criminally responsible for the three counts of genocide."
 
Bashir already faces an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the African Union (AU) has said on Friday it would not cooperate with that warrant and again appealed to the United Nations to delay the case.
 
"The prosecution submitted detailed evidence on the mobilisation and use of the entire Sudanese state apparatus for the purpose of destroying a substantial part of the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups in the entire region of Darfur during more than six years," Ocampo says.

He urged the appeals chamber to "correct the error" of omitting the genocide counts against Bashir and to remand the case back to the ICC's pre-trial chamber in The Hague.

The initial arrest warrant issued against Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the western Darfur region between 2003 and 2005 was issued on March 4.

On that occasion the prosecutor implicated the Sudanese leader in the deaths of 35,000 people.

On Tuesday, the prosecutor detailed more evidence to "prove the genocidal intentions of al Bashir."

Bashir has defied the previous arrest warrant by traveling to nations that are not signatories to the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, before attending last week's AU summit in Sirte, Libya.

Thirty African states have signed the Rome statute creating the court, and have treaty obligations to arrest Bashir if he travels on their territory.

But the AU last week backed Libyan leader and current AU chief Moamer Kadhafi, who said the ICC represented a "new world terrorism" and won support from many countries who felt the court was unfairly targeting Africans.
 
The United Nations (UN) says up to 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million have fled their homes since rebels in Darfur rose up against Khartoum in February 2003.

Sudan's government says 10,000 have been killed.