The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Tuesday before the UN Security Council that Sudan is "fed up with promises and years for justice," expressing regret for the "regression" of cooperation by the Sudanese authorities.
Karim Khan is currently on a visit to Sudan, where he met the second man in the military regime, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, on Tuesday, and on Wednesday he will meet with Major General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, who took power after a coup in October.
During his field visit to Darfur, he inspected three camps for the displaced, including Kalma camp, where the refugees expressed their gratitude to him. “This gratitude is not commensurate with what we have done,” he said during a video intervention.
Noting the progress made with the start of the trial of a former leader of the Janjaweed militia, the first person to be tried by the International Criminal Court for the atrocities committed in Darfur nearly 20 years ago, he called for "acceleration of action."
The Prosecutor stressed that "the nightmare of thousands of Darfuris has not ended" in part because of the lack of justice, and justice "requires actions, not words. They are of tired promises."
Even if he welcomed the visas granted to his team and him for this visit, "the cooperation took a step backwards in recent months."
In his semi-annual report, the Prosecutor called on the Sudanese authorities to provide free access to documents serving ICC investigations and key witnesses.
Karim Khan also invited the Security Council to visit Sudan.
"The opportunity to learn more and hear from some of the survivors and some of the people of Darfur who live in the camps who respect you and have so much hope in you will help us revive our commitments to humanity and yours as a member of the Security Council," he said.
Darfur The vast region of western Sudan witnessed a civil war that began in 2003 between the Arab-majority regime of Omar al-Bashir and ethnic minority denouncing discrimination discrimination.
Al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019 and then imprisoned. He is still subject to an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, like other figures in the old regime, accused of committing "crimes against humanity" and "genocide" in Darfur.
ICC Prosecutor Says Sudanese Are "Fed Up With Promises"
