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Human Rights Watch welcomed Monday's hearing as an important step toward justice for victims, but the group's associate international justice director Elise Keppler added that "the absence of al-Bashir and the three other Darfur suspects at the ICC is a major shortcoming that the Sudanese authorities should promptly address.

HRW further detailled the names of the suspects: Ahmed Haroun, former state minister for humanitarian affairs and former governor of Southern Kordofan state, Abdulraheem Mohammed Hussein, the former defense minister, and Abdallah Banda Abakaer, leader of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement in Darfur. Adam Regal, a spokesman for General Coordination for Refugee and Displaced Camps in Darfur, said they would hire lawyers to represent refugees and displaced people before the court.

He said they would work with the court to provide possible evidence and help survivors of the atrocities reach the court. He criticized the transitional government for not yet handing over al-Bashir and other wanted officials.

Welcome to Africanews Please select your experience. Watch Live. Breaking News Close. You may also like. As of late , over 2 million people remain displaced from the conflict and almost 5 million people in total have been affected. In April , President Omar al-Bashir was finally ousted. He had been in power for over 30 years and his removal was in response to months of unarmed protests, to which the government responded with armed retaliation.

Air campaigns are often followed by Janjaweed militia raids. All remaining village men, women, and children are either murdered or forced to flee.

Looting, burning food stocks, enslaving and raping women and children, and stealing livestock are common. Dead bodies are tossed in wells to contaminate water supplies and entire villages are burned to the ground.

Bush called for the number of international troops in Darfur to be doubled. In addition, the US has imposed economic sanctions on Sudan since However, after working and talking with the Sudanese government for years, the US formally revoked its sanctions on Sudan in On September 17, , British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote an open letter to the members of the European Union calling for a unified response to the crisis.

Both China and Russia have blocked many United Nations resolutions on Darfur because of their support for the Sudanese government, a big trading partner. China invests heavily in Sudanese oil. Russia and China opposed UN peace keeping troops in Sudan. Since the ousting of Omar al-Bashir in early , the Sudanese government has established and retained a transitional government. Although this government recently did agree to turn to turn over al-Bashir to the ICC, its next steps and transition to a permanent government remain to be seen.

Arbitrary detention, torture, limitations of the freedom of press, and gender-based violence continue to be seen in both Darfur and Sudan as a whole under this new government. Sudan — Darfur. Pro-government militia in Darfur. SLM combatants. President Omar al-Bashir. Local officials in the South Darfur state said that about armed men attacked the village, adding that a joint security force repelled the deadly attack, the state news agency SUNA reported. They gave different estimates of the number of victims.

Conflict broke out in Darfur after mostly non-Arab rebels rose up against Khartoum.