The International Criminal Court (ICC) asserts that violence continues.in Darfur after over 20 years of the first atrocities there..
Before the UN Security Council, its Deputy Prosecutor, Nazhat Shameem Khan, described a situation marked by war crimes and crimes against humanity committed methodically, deliberately, and with extensive documentation.
ICC Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan alerted the UN Security Council on Monday to the ongoing violence in Darfur, western Sudan. Since the fall of El-Fasher in the fall of 2025, the last government stronghold in North Darfur, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly carried out an organized campaign of widespread violence, targeting non-Arab communities in particular.
According to the ICC, these atrocities include rape, arbitrary detention, executions, mass graves and the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
Investigators are relying on a body of evidence, including videos, audio recordings, and satellite images, showing crimes sometimes filmed and celebrated by their perpetrators.
These findings echo those of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, who describes a “chronicle of cruelty” and a humanitarian situation plunged into “an abyss of unimaginable dimensions.”
The ICC is calling for increased cooperation from states to enable the arrest of suspects and the continuation of investigations.
The Darfur conflict was referred to the International Criminal Court in 2005, following a campaign of violence waged in the early 2000s by the Janjaweed militias, the forerunners of the Rapid Support Forces.
In October 2005, the ICC sentenced Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, to 20 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity. A historic conviction, which the court considers insufficient in the light of the ongoing violence and the persistent feeling of impunity in the region.
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