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A Sudanese militia leader has been found guilty of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region more than 20 years ago.
Mr. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, was one of the leaders of the Janjaweed, a government-backed group that terrorized Darfur, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
Mr. Kushayb is the first person to be tried by the International Criminal Court for the atrocities in Darfur though he had argued it was a case of mistaken identity. The conflict 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. END