More than 20 years on from the atrocities committed Sudan’s Darfur region, a Janjaweed militia leader was convicted on Monday by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, known commonly as Ali Kushayb, will have his sentence determined after a new round of hearings. His crimes included rape, murder and persecution. The conviction in the first and only trial looking at crimes in Sudan since the case was referred to the court by the United Nations Security Council in 2005.
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