The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced on Thursday that Sudan the Sudan Has submitted An application for introduction of procedures against the United Arab Emirates (VAE) for accusations of complicity in the event of genocide against Masalite, a black African community, in West -Darfur.
Sudan kept The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their associated militia, which are responsible for the implementation of actions, including “genocide, murder, theft of property, rape, loss, violation, vandalism of public properties and violation of human rights”. The country says that all of these actions were facilitated by the VAE by the “extensive financial, political and military” support of the RSF militia.
The Sudan asked the ICJ to implement preliminary measures to order the VAE in order to fulfill its obligations as signatories of the genocide convent. This includes taking all measures within its power to prevent killing of the Masalite group, causing serious physical or mental damage, deliberately adding conditions that can cause the group partially or total destruction, and prevent measures to restrict the births within the group.
The VAE are supposedly seek The immediate dismissal of the case and as “unfounded”, and assumed that the submission is supported by the Sudanese government to cover up the Sudanese armed forces (SAF). A nameless Emirati officer opened the application as “nothing more than a cynical advertising agent who aimed to continue to falsify the attention of the established complicity of the Sudanese armed in the widespread atrocities that continue to destroy the Sudan and its people.”
In April 2024, a year after the war in Sudan, the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights released Which it described as a “first independent examination” in violations of the genocide convention in Darfur. The report stated that on the basis of “clear and convincing evidence” it came to the conclusion that the RSF and the Allied militias continuously commit the crime of genocide against the Masalite and other non-Arab groups.
In addition to the United Arab Emirates, the report also referred to the complicity of Sudan, Libya, Chad, the Central African Republic and Russia about the actions of its state -financed private military company as a “Wagner Group”.
Based on his conclusion, the report considered All 153 signatories of the genocide convent under legally commits to terminate accomplice and “use all means to prevent and stop the genocide”.
While the clashes between SAF and RSF began in April 2023, the Sudan had fully against violence since the Darfur crisis of 2003, as a war in full broke out When the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the justice and equality movement (JEM) won weapons against the government of Sudan because they supposedly not suppressed Arab groups. The then President Omar al-Bashir described the rebels as “racist” and recruited Arab militias and named the nickname “Janjawed”, which later gave birth to today’s RSF.
Al-Bashir’s government, supported by the Janjaweed, returned to the rebel groups and the civilian “African ethnic” groups in Darfur through air raids, burning villages and poisoning of fountains, which led to the death of 400,000 people, the shift of millions of people and the systematic migration of women.
The United States recognized This actions as a genocide as part of the United Nations’ genocide agreement and before the International Criminal Court (ICC) temporarily led to an arrest warrant against Al-Bashir in 2009 for “Instructions for a campaign of mass murder”.
The RSF continues use Rape as a weapon of war in Sudan, whereby countless reports of women who were violently attacked in front of their families, and countless others due to the stigmas that surrounds the topic were not reported. Many Sudanese women look at suicide to escape the inevitability of rape, and some questions even about a fatwa that could make suicide according to Islamic law.
The UNICEF announced on March 4 that 220 cases of rapes in Sudan have been reported in Sudan since the beginning of 2024, although the recent survivors were only one year old.
