The top court of the United Nations rejected a case on Monday in which the United Arab Emirates are accused of feeding genocide in Sudan by supporting paramilitary troops in the current civil war of the country. The court said it “apparently has no jurisdiction.”
The International Court of Justice did not focus on the allegations of the Sudanese government, but with a 14-2 vote, it refused to carry out the provisional emergency measures against the VAE that Sudan had asked. According to a 9-7 votes, it has officially removed the matter from his cocket summary of his decision.
Both Sudan and the Emirates are signatories of the Genocide Treaty of 1948, but the VAE, when it signed the treaty in 2005, opted for an important clause with which countries enable each other to complain at the International Court of Justice, based in the hedge.
In March, Sudan asked the court To record the case, the Emirates had violated the genocide treaty by arming and financing it FastersA powerful paramilitary group fighting the Sudanese army.
During the first hearing last month, Sudan urged the court to impose several provisional orders that the VAE had to stop to stop actions that can come down to genocide against the Masalit people in the West -Darfur region and to end further help to the RSF
The Emirati Government rejected the claimsSaying that Sudan had not succeeded in providing credible evidence and claiming that the court was missing jurisdiction.
“Simply put, today’s decision represents a thunderous rejection of the attempt by the Sudanese armed forces to make the court instrumental for his campaign of wrong information and to deduce from his own responsibility,” said Reem Ketait, a senior officer at the Emirati Foreign Ministry sent after the court’s court.
The international court said in his summary that “his status was excluded from taking a position in the merits of Sudan’s claims”, but that it was “deeply concerned about the unfolding human tragedy in Sudan.”
Khalid Ali Aleisir, the minister of information from Sudan and the official government spokesperson, did not respond to a request for comment.
The rapid strict forces grew partly from the infamous Janjaweed -MilitiesThat in the 2000s Sudan helped to suppress a rebellion in Darfur. That conflict brought a different world stand, the International Criminal Court, to accuse the old dictator, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on accusation of genocide and crimes against humanity in 2009. The army destroyed him ten years later, but he was not transferred for prosecution.
The current War in Sudan started in April 2023, when the RSF started to clash with the Sudan army. Since then the conflict has led widespread hunger And famineAlmost 13 million people moved and caused tens of thousands of deaths.
Both parties are accused of committing war crimes and gross violations of human rights. The paramilitary group, led by Lt. Gene. Mohamed Hamdan, and his allies, are accused of Ethnic cleaning and genocide deeds against the non-Arabic Masalit ethnic group. The army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is accused of With chemical weapons And Without a distinction aimed at citizens.
While the war raged, it pulled in regional and foreign actors.
The VAE in particular has carried out an extensive secret operation to support the RSF, to deliver powerful weapons and drones, treat wounded hunters and to avoid the most serious cases to one of its military hospitals, According to a dozen current and former officials from the United States, Europe and various African countries.
The VAE last September rejected Reporting by De Tijd That the assistance used by the Emirates Red Crescent on a base in Amdjarass, Chad, near Sudan, as cover for smuggling weapons to the Sudanese paramilitary and operational drone flights to guide the hunters.
Last week, Emirati State Media reported that the authorities had tried an attempt by Sudanese military officers Smuggles weapons to the Sudanese army Through an airport in the Emirates.
The conflict has been intensified in recent weeks and months, with the army Consolidating his grip on the capitalKhartmoem and the recapture of the city’s most important international airport.
The paramilitary forces have solidified their control over Darfur. Last week, the group killed More than 100 citizens in an attack on the southern city of Nahud and plundered markets and pharmacies, a doctor group said. The RSF too intended The airport and various other civil facilities in the eastern city of Port Sudan this weekend, according to the army.
Abdalrahman Altayeb Reported report from Port Sudan contributed.
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