The ICC Prosecutor requested arrest warrants for atrocities in Darfur | Carbon

The public prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said he applied for arrest warrants for people who are accused of atrocities in the Darfur region in Sudan, in which the USA and others have found that a paramilitary group and its allied genocide have committed.

Karim Khan told the UN Security Council in New York: “Crime accelerates in Darfur. Civilian population are targeted, women and girls are exposed to sexual violence, and entire communities are left behind in destruction.

“This is not just an assessment. It is a persistent analysis based on verified evidence. “

Khan said that ICC lawyers had made significant progress by interviewing witnesses who had fled Sudan.

The Sudan fell into conflicts in mid -April 2023 when Khartoum, Khartoum, Khartoum, and other regions, including the huge western region of Western Darfur, broke out long exciting tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders.

Two decades ago, Darfur became a synonym for genetic murder and war crimes, in particular by the notorious Arab militias of Janjaweed, against population groups that identify as central or East African. Up to 300,000 people were killed and 2.7 million driven out of their houses.

Khan said that there is now very clear echoes of what happened 20 years ago. “The pattern of the crimes, the perpetrators, the parties, persecuted the same protagonists, the same, targeted groups as in 2003,” he said. “It is the same communities, the same groups, suffering, a new generation that suffers the same hell that was endured by other generations of Darfuris, and that is tragic.”

On Monday evening he gave no details about the specific crimes or the people who would have arrested the ISTGH.

In January, Khan informed the Council that there were reasons to pursue both the government troops and the paramilitary Rapid supporters (RSF) born from the Janjawed to pursue war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide in Darfur.

Witnesses and right-wing groups said that the RSF applied for Masalite and other non-Arabic groups in ethnically targeted attacks in Genina, the capital of the state of West Darfur.

In order to point out the influence of the ICC on the crisis, Khan emphasized the conclusion of the latest legal proceedings against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, who was accused of 31 war crimes between 2003 and 2004 as a leader of the Janjawed militia. He handed over to custody in June 2020 and his trial in the Hague was completed last December.

Arrest warrants for Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president until 2019, Abdel Hussein, the representative of the former president in Darfur and Abdel Harun, the former interior minister.

Khan’s intervention was the UN Secretary General António Guterres, sentenced the attack on January 24 to the Saudi teaching hospital in El Fasher in Norddarfur, the only functioning hospital in Darfur’s largest city.

At least 70 patients and their relatives were reportedly killed and dozens more injured in a drone strike.

The Trump government can pursue a more robust approach for Sudan, one of the five signatories of the Abraham Agreement, the normalization with Israel, which Donald Trump still appreciates.

The new US foreign minister, Marco Rubio, has confirmed that he sees the recent events in Darfur as a genocide, a term that has been used by the bid administration in recent days. Rubio also openly accused the United Arab Emirates of financing the RSF that contest the VAE.

The US Ministry of Finance has sanctions against Capital Tap Holding LL.C last month, a holding company based in VAE, which manages 50 companies in 10 countries. It also provided sanctions against creative Python, a company in the United Arab Emirates, which were described as the RSF’s procurement arm.

British Foreign Minister David Lammy went to the border between Sudan and Chad last week to be informed about the humanitarian crisis and plans to hold a meeting of the foreign ministers on Sudan in the coming months. He cannot describe what has happened as a genocide, since British politics is more intended for courts than for ministers to make such provisions.

The schedule for some diplomats can be overrun by events on site. According to a report by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitrian Research Lab, one, a large number of RSF fighters in January are sought to surround El Fasher, and are now less than 3 km from the Zamzam warehouse for internally displaced people . Recognized tracker of the progress of the war.

The Zamzam camp houses up to 500,000 displaced persons, and the World Food Program is fighting to prevent full famine there.

The Trump team is asked to appoint a special representative for the Horn of Africa and to check his decision to freeze all US help for six months until a review that Democratic Senators like Chris Murphy said Sudan dies in weeks. The United States was the greatest donor of humanitarian aid for the Sudanian reaction and has provided more than USD 1.4 billion (1.1 billion GBP) in humanitarian aid since October 2022, including more than $ 980 million in USAID financing.