ICC convicts former Sudan militia leader for war crimes in Darfur | Darfur
The International Criminal Court was sentenced to the leader of the Janjaweed militias for playing a leading role in the brutality campaign in the Darfur Sudan region more than 20 years ago.
For the first time, the court sentenced a crime suspect in Darfur. The court decided that persecution, including mass murders and rape, was part of a government plan to close a rebellion in Sudan’s western region.
Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known by Nom de Guerre Ali Kushayb, did not show any feelings while reading the decision of President Judge Joanna Korner.
“The room was convinced that the chamber was guilty beyond reasonable suspicion of the accused crimes,” Korner said. The Minister added that the sentence would take place on a later date.
Corner, gang rape, abuse and sad explanations of mass killing. Once, before the US-Al-Rahman loaded approximately 50 civilians trucks, beat them with some axes, ordered them to sleep on the ground and kill them to their troops.
ICC Judge, “The defendant not only gave orders … At the same time he was personally involved in the fights and then physically existed and was given orders to execute the detained,” he said.
The prosecutors accused the US-Al-Rahman of being a leading member of Sudan’s famous Janjaweed Milis, which joined “enthusiasm” in more than one war crime.
Born in 1949, however, the US-Al-Rahman rejected all the charges by saying that he was the wrong man.
“I’m not Ali Kushhayb. I don’t know this person… I have nothing to do with the charges against me”.
However, the Korner said that the court is satisfied with the defendant is that the defendant is known as Ali Kushayb, and rejects the defense witnesses who rejected it.
In February 2020, when the US-Al-Rahman announced his intention to cooperate with the ICC investigation of a new Sudan government, he fled to the Central African Republic.
He then said that he had surrendered himself because he was “desperate, and that he was afraid that the authorities would kill him.
The non -Arab tribes complaining about systematic discrimination, when they took a gun against the Arabian government of Khartoum, a fight erupted in the Darfur region.
At that time, the Sudan government responded by revealing Janjaweed, a force withdrawn from the nomadic tribes of the region.
The United Nations said that 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million people were displaced with Darfur conflict in the 2000s.
During the hearing, the ICC Chief Public Prosecutor said that the US-Al-Rahman and his forces were “ramping in different parts of Darfur”.
Kar Karim Khan, who resigned because he was facing sexual abuse allegations, said, “Women in the villages suffered severe pain and pain on women, children and men,” he said.
The US-Al-Rahman is thought to be the ally of President Omar Al-Beşir from the Sudan, which was dismissed by ICC in the desired position in genocide charges.
Beşir, who has managed Sudan with an iron fist for nearly thirty years, was ignored in April 2019 after months of protests in Sudan and was detained.
However, he was not delivered to The Hague -based ICC, where he is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
ICC prosecutors hope to issue a new arrest warrant about the current crisis in Sudan.
Since 2023, tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions of people have been displaced in a war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary rapid support forces growing from the Janjaweed militias.
According to aid agencies, the conflict, which was marked with allegations of savagery on all sides, left the Northeast African country on the verge of famine.
