Former senior commander of the Sudanese militia Dzhanjavid Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Ramman, appears at the hearing on military crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Darfur conflict in 2003-04 in the Gaga International Criminal Court.
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Lagos, Nigeria-Meadow-Criminal Criminal Court (MUS) in The Hague was condemned by Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Ramman, the leader of the infamous police of Jandjavid Sudan for his role in the beasts performed during the Genocide in the Western region of Darfur more than 20 years ago. This is the first conviction of the court for crimes in Darfur, where such violence flashed against the backdrop of the continuing civil war of Sudan.
The judges found that massacres and sexual violence were part of a plan supported by the former government of Sudan to crush the uprising of African ethnic groups in the Western region. Abd al-Rykhman, also known to Herre Ali Kushab, was known found guilty of 27 pointsIt was produced from August 2003 to April 2004. He was silent when the presiding judge Joanna Corner read the verdict.
“The accused not only issued orders … but also personally participated in beatings, and then physically attended and gave orders for the execution of the detainees,” Korner said.
Abd al-Rykhman, who claimed that he was mistakenly identified, would be sentenced to later and will encounter the maximum period of life imprisonment in prison. Abd al-Ramman was born in 1949, in February 2020 after the new government of Sudan announced cooperation with the investigation of the Mus in February 2020 after the new government of Sudan announced that he would cooperate. Later he gave up, saying that he was “desperate” and was afraid that the authorities would be killed.
The conflict in Darfur lasted from 2003 to 2020 and is widely considered 21st The first genocide of the centuryDuring this time, the United Nations, according to estimates, the field, the conflict died 300,000 people and forced 2.5 million from its houses.
After reading the verdict, Korner spoke about the terrible crimes committed by Abd al-Rahman, including the rape of gangs, abuse and mass killings. Although the Mus successfully pursued Abd al-Ramman, Several arrest orders remain outstanding Against Sudanese officials, including one accusing former President Omar al-Bashira in the genocide, which he denies. Bashir, who was overthrown as a result of the coup in 2019, according to reports, is in custody in North Sudan.
During the trial, Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the Mus, said that Abd al-Ramman and Dzhanjavid’s militia “waved” through Darfur and “caused severe pain and suffering to women, children and men in the villages that he left in his path.”
Dzhanjavid later turned into quick support forces (RSF), which since 2023 are fighting with the Armed Forces of Sudan (SAF). RSF is accused United StatesThe UN and others, in order to perform another genocide in Darfur, supplant thousands, causing hunger and leading to the region to a new humanitarian disaster.
