The International Criminal Court (ICC) have handed a 20 years sentence to a Sudanese militia leader for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed two decades ago.
According to reports, the court had already convicted Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including rape, murder and torture, in the western Darfur region between 2003 and 2004.
The 76-year-old was a leading member of Sudan’s infamous Janjaweed militia who participated “actively” in multiple war crimes during the civil war.
Further reports indicate that the convict had personally walked on the heads of injured men, women and children.
A prosecutor had called for a life sentence telling the court that Abd-Al-Rahman had denied being a high-ranking official in the Janjaweed militia, a largely Arab paramilitary force armed by the Sudanese government to kill mainly black African tribes in Darfur two decades ago.
Further reports indicate that he fled to the Central African Republic in February 2020 when a new Sudanese government announced its intention to cooperate with the ICC’s investigation.
