Sudan brings genocide case against UAE at International Court of Justice
Sudan accuses the United Arab Emirates of complicity in genocide over its alleged support for the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, which has been found to have committed atrocities against the Masalit ethnic group in Sudan's West Darfur state.
Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates at the International Court of Justice alleging that its backing of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces constitutes a violation of the Genocide Convention.
The ICJ said in a press release on Thursday that Sudan had filed the case on Wednesday “concerning alleged violations by the UAE of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the ‘Genocide Convention’) in relation to the Masalit group in Sudan, most notably in West Darfur.”
Sudan and the UAE are both parties to the Genocide Convention.
Sudan’s case concerns acts perpetrated by the RSF against the ethnic Masalit group in Sudan it alleges were “enabled by the direct support given to the rebel RSF militia and related militia groups by the United Arab Emirates.”
