Sudan brought a case against the United Arab Emirates (VAE) on Wednesday at the International Court of Appeal (ICJ) for the alleged breaking with the genocide interrogation. The court has that in The Hague announced on Thursday. De Vae calls the indictment “nothing more than a cynical publicity stunt” and told them that they will do their best to make the case dismiss.
Both Sudan and the VAE have signed the Genocide Convention from 1948. With this, the countries have committed themselves to not committing genocide and preventing it. But according to Sudan, with their financial and military support to the Sudanese rebel group Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the VAE have broken with this duty.
In November 2023, a still constant civil war broke out in Sudan between the government army and several rebel groups, including the paramilitary RSF from Arab nomadic peoples. For the state army, the United States are the important ally, for the RSF that are the Emirates.
Minority
Millions of Sudanese were fled by the destructive war and many stay in refugee camps. The people of Masalit, an ethnic minority in Sudan, is particularly the victim of the actions of rebel groups. The case of the state of Sudan focuses on the actions that the RSF committed on the Masalit people at the start of the war in the west of the Darfur region, reports the ICJ.
The indictment includes accusations of “genocide, murder, theft of property, rape, forced relocation, house breach, vandalism of public property and violation of human rights.” In January, Washington already accused the rebels of RSF of genocide for these actions.
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