ICC erneut wegen Sudan aktiv

In der letzten Woche eskalierten die Kämpfe im Sudan. Während inzwischen drei Millionen Menschen aus dem Großraum Khartoum geflohen sein sollen, fast die Hälfte der Bevölkerung, werden Zivilisten vermehrt Opfer von Angriffen.

Auch der Internationale Strafgerichtshof, der ja einen Haftbefehl gegen Sudans Ex-Diktator ausgestellt hatte, wird wieder aktiv:

The International Criminal Court has opened a new probe into alleged war crimes in Sudan, its chief prosecutor said Thursday, expressing major concern over escalating violence. (...)

Allegations of atrocities have mounted during the recent fighting, with the top UN official in Sudan calling for the warring sides to face accountability.

Around 3,000 people have been killed and three million displaced since violence erupted between Sudan army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.

The pair were key figures in a 2021 military coup that derailed the country's transition to civilian rule, following the ousting and detention of Bashir in 2019.

The UN has warned of possible new massacres in Darfur, saying Thursday that the bodies of at least 87 people allegedly killed last month by the RSF and their allies had been buried in a mass grave in Darfur.

"The simple truth is that we are... in peril of allowing history to repeat itself -- the same miserable history," Khan told the UNSC.

"If this oft repeated phrase of 'never again' is to mean anything, it must mean something here and now to the people of Darfur that has lived with this uncertainty and pain and the scars of conflict for almost two decades," Khan said as he announced the new probe.