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A \u201cbreakthrough\u201d has been made in the investigation into crimes committed during Sudan\u2019s war in the Darfur region allowing prosecutors to link them to leadership, a senior International Criminal Court official told Reuters. <\/p>\n

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The ICC is investigating attacks on the cities of al-Geneina, in 2023, and al-Fashir \u2060last year, where U.N. experts say forces from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces committed crimes that bear the \u201challmarks of genocide\u201d against people from non-Arab tribes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have got additional evidence, strong evidence, linking what is occurring in Darfur with leadership levels. And we are very, very pleased to say that this is a breakthrough for us,\u201d deputy prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan told Reuters, following a visit to eastern Chad to meet victims of the attacks.<\/p>\n

She did not specify the forces \u2060the leadership belong to and could not, according to ICC rules, say whether \u200bwarrants \u2060had been or would be applied for. \u201cWe are confident that there are going to be results in at least a reasonable time,\u201d she added, without giving a timeframe.<\/p>\n

In international war crimes trials of political leaders it is often hard to link \u2060them to specific atrocity crimes committed by lower level perpetrators. Prosecutors need so-called linkage evidence \u2014 often in the form of insider witnesses \u200bor physical records \u2014 of \u2060political leadership being briefed about operations and plans on \u200cthe ground.<\/p>\n

Al-Geneina and al-Fashir saw the most intense violence in the war between the Sudanese army and the RSF that continued for more than three years. The RSF now controls both cities, and Khan told the U.N. Security Council in January that the paramilitary group had \u200cnot cooperated with investigations.<\/p>\n

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The RSF has said it did not target civilians in \u200cthe attacks and would hold individual perpetrators accountable.<\/p>\n

Witnesses speak of executions and sexual violence<\/h2>\n

A Reuters documentary on the al-Fashir takeover identified several RSF leaders committing or in the vicinity of attacks through interviews and analysis of videos posted online.<\/p>\n

Khan said the ICC probes included similar testimonies collected by ICC investigators.<\/p>\n

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Khan said witnesses spoke of executions and sexual violence. \u201cWe will \u2060ensure [their stories] are also told in the course of our proceedings,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Sudan is not a party to the Rome Statute, and therefore not a member of the ICC, but the U.N. Security Council gave the court jurisdiction over atrocity crimes committed in Darfur from 2005 onwards. <\/p>\n

The country\u2019s army-led government has cooperated with investigations on the most recent attacks, but has not handed over several top former leaders accused of genocide and other attacks in the earlier conflict. <\/p>\n

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No public warrants have yet been issued during the current war, which began in April 2023. <\/p>\n

Asked whether countries said to be supporting the commission of these crimes, including the United Arab Emirates, which has been identified in expert filings to the \u200ccourt as supporting the RSF, could be pursued, Khan said the court\u2019s jurisdiction applied to individuals contributing to the crimes but \u200bnot to states, and that the focus was on the crimes committed inside the two cities in order to achieve \u200cconcrete results. <\/p>\n

The UAE has denied any link to the fighting.<\/p>\n

Three \u2060countries in West Africa\u2019s Sahel region \u2014 Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso \u2014 announced last year that they would withdraw from the Rome \u2060Statute, and the court said on July 1 that they had submitted letters initiating the process, which takes a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope they change their minds because I see a \u200cgreat virtue in being part of the Rome \u200bStatute family. I think it protects the world,\u201d Khan said. Khan and other \u200ccourt staff currently face U.S. sanctions after the ICC issued arrest \u200bwarrants for Israeli leaders for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. <\/p>\n

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