The United Nations main court dismissed a case accusing the United Arab Emirates of feeding the genocide in Sudan by supporting the paramilitary forces in the ongoing civil war. The court said that “it lacks jurisdiction manifestly.”
The International Court of Justice did not rule on the accusations made by the Sudanese government, but by a vote of 14-2, it refused to issue the provisional emergency measures again the EAU that Sudan had requested. Through a 9-7 vote, he officially eliminated the case of his file, according to a summary of his decision.
Both Sudan and the Emirates are signing the 1948 Genocide Convention, but the EAU, when they signed the treaty in 2005, opted for a key clause that allows countries to sue each other in the International Court of Justice, based in The Hague.
In March, Sudan asked the court to occupy his case, claiming that the Emirates had violated the Genocide Armando Convention and financing the rapid support forces, a powerful group of paramilitas who is fighting against the Sudanese army.
At the initial hearing last month, Sudan urged the court to impose several preliminary orders that require EAU to stop actions that could be equivalent to genocide against the people of Masalit in the western region of Darfur, and end any additional assistance to RSF
The Emirati government rejected the claims, saying that Sudan had not submitted credible evidence and arguing that the court lacked jurisdiction.
“In a nutshell, today’s decision repeats a resounding rejection of the attempt by the Sudanese armed forces to instrumentalize the Court for its campaign or erroneous information and to distract from its own responsibility,” replaced Foreisti Foreigni Foreigni Foreigni Foreigni of York Times after the Court’s decision.
The International Court said in his summary that it was “prevented by its statute to take any position on the merits of the statements made by Sudan” but that “was” deeply the human tragedy that develops in Sudan. “
Khalid Ali Aleisir, Minister of Information of Sudan and the official government spokesman did not respond to a request for comments.
The rapid support forces grew in part from the famous Janjaweed militias, which in the 2000s helped Sudan to brutally suppress a rebellion in Darfur. This conflict led to a different World Court, the International Criminal Court, to accuse the dictator of a lifetime, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, for charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in 2009. The military overthrew him a decade later.
The current war in Sudan Begen Been in April 2023, when the RSF turned with the Sudan Army. Since then, the conflict has led to broad hunger and famine, displaced almost 13 million people and caused tens of thousands of deaths.
Both parties have been accused of committing war crimes and serious violations of human rights. The paramilitary group, directed by the Lieutenant Gen. Mohamed Hamdan and his allies have been accused or committing ethnic cleaning and acts of genocide against the non -Arab Ethnic group of Masalit. The Army, led by General Abdel Fattaah al-Burhan, has been accused of using chemical weapons and indimbly attacking civilians.
As war unleashed, it was based on regional and foreign actors.
The EAU in particular have carried out an undercover operation elaborated to support the RSF, providing powerful weapons and drones, treating injured fighters and raising the most serious cases to one of its military hospitals, according to a dozen current and previous officials of the United States, Europe and several African countries.
The EAU last September rejected the reports of the times he was using aid operations of Emirates Red Crescent on a base in Amdjass, Chad, near Sudan, as a cover for smuggling of weapons to the flights of Sudanese paramilitary and operational drones.
Last week, Emirathi’s state media reported that the authorities had frustrated an attempt by Sudanese military officers to smuggled weapons to the Sudanese army through an Emirates airport.
The conflict has intensified in recent weeks and months, with the military consolidating their control over the capital, Jartum, and recover the main international airport in the city.
Paramilitary forces have solidified their control in Darfur. Last week, the group killed more than 100 civilians in an attack against Nahud’s southern city and looted markets and pharmacies, said a group of doctors. The RSF also attacked the airport and several other civil facilities in the eastern city of Port Sudan during the weekend, according to the army.
Abdalrahman Altayeb Reports contributed from Port Sudan.
