ICC Prosecutor Accuses Sudan's Armed Forces and Paramilitary of War Crimes in Darfur

The renewed conflict has left nearly half of Sudan’s population requiring aid, with over 7.5 million displaced.

Sudan’s army and its rival paramilitary force, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), are committing war crimes in Darfur, according to the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
The ICC launched a war crimes investigation into the renewed conflict in July and reported to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that there are grounds to believe crimes established under the Rome Statute are being committed in Darfur.
Fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF in April last year, the latest flare-up in a conflict that has been simmering for more than 20 years, leaving nearly half of Sudan’s 49 million people requiring aid, with more than 7.5 million displaced.
Khan urged Sudan’s military-led government to provide ICC investigators with multiple-entry visas and respond to 35 requests for assistance.
Last April, the first ICC trial to deal with atrocities by Sudanese government-backed forces in Darfur began in The Hague, Netherlands.