In this podcast, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts, Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg, are discussing the first trial to open before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on crimes committed about 20 years ago in Sudan’s Darfur region. The accused Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as "Ali Kushayb" – an identity he denies –, was allegedly one of the Janjaweed militia leaders. He is now 72 years old. Is there any hope that he could speak out on who gave the orders and plan the attacks? The shadow of Sudan’s former leader Omar Al Bachir, who is accused of genocide by the ICC prosecutor and remains out of reach of the court, hangs over this trial. But the case is “all the more relevant” because political dynamics that are at play today in Sudan and the Darfur region mirror those two decades ago, says Emma DiNapoli, a legal officer at international NGO Redress, who is the main guest in this progra
Ali Kushayb has pleaded not guilty to 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection to atrocities committed in the Darfur region of Sudan.