Sudan is set to hand over former Sudanese dictator to the International Criminal Court. The country’s cabinet decided to hand over the former president to the ICC.
Former Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir has been charged with genocide and war crimes in Darfur. Along with him, several other former officials involved in the Darfur crisis will also face trial at the ICC.
The ICC issued the first arrest warrant against Bashir in 2009. Although 12 years have passed, he was out of reach. The Darfur crisis began in Sudan in 2003. At that time, several rebel groups became active against the government in the capital, Khartoum.
In the name of suppressing them, government forces carried out massacres in the village after village. According to the United Nations, 300,000 people were killed at that time.
Bashir, who has been president for three decades, was ousted in 2019 in the face of mass protests.
