Sudan war: ICC tells BBC about success in war crimes investigation

The ICC has been investigating war crimes in Darfur More than 20 years since the last round of attacks in the 2000s.

“What we are seeing are the patterns of outrage that were first reported to us by the Security Council 20 years ago,” she said.

According to Khan, the ICC investigation will include witness accounts, testimonies and corroboration such as video, photographs and forensic evidence.

Earlier investigations resulted in seven arrests and six different charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Those charged include Sudan’s former president, Omar al-Bashir.

In the year In 2019, he was ousted in a coup and arrested. He is believed to be in a secure medical facility in Sudan.

Four other people were not arrested despite the filing of arrest warrants.

Last year, the ICC successfully convicted a former militia leader of 27 war crimes and crimes committed in Darfur between 2003 and 2004 and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.

Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was a senior official of the Janjaweed, a government-sponsored militia targeting Darfuri civilians who are not part of the country’s majority Arab population.

Janjaweed is one of the groups that evolved into the RSF, which was once aligned with the Sudanese army, but is now fighting.