{"id":30135,"date":"2025-12-10T05:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=30135"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:32:12","slug":"sudan-militia-chief-sentenced-to-20-years-for-war-crimes-during-darfur-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/sudan-militia-chief-sentenced-to-20-years-for-war-crimes-during-darfur-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan militia chief sentenced to 20 years for war crimes during Darfur conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced a Sudanese militia leader to 20 years in prison for atrocities committed during a civil war more than two decades ago.<\/b><\/p>\n

Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman had been convicted in October on 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region.<\/p>\n

Known as Ali Kushayb, he was one of the leaders of the Janjaweed, a government-backed group that terrorised Darfur, killing hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n

Kushayb, aged 76, is the first person to be tried by the ICC for atrocities committed during the civil war. He had argued the charges were a case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dressed in a light blue suit and tie, Kushayb stood quietly as presiding judge Joanna Korner delivered his sentence on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Abdal Raman not only gave the orders which led directly to the crimes but… also personally perpetrated some of them,” Judge Korner told the court.<\/p>\n

The conflict in question lasted from 2003 to 2020 and was one of the world’s gravest humanitarian disasters, with allegations of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the region’s non-Arabic population.<\/p>\n

Five years after the end of that crisis,\u00a0Darfur is a key battleground in another civil war<\/a>, this time between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), whose origins lie in the Janjaweed.<\/p>\n

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