Military crimes committed by the ICC

Western Sudan committed “reasonable grounds” to believe in a military crime and a crime against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday.

The aim of sexual abuse against women and girls of specific nationalities was named one of the most disturbing conclusions arising from the ICC probe about crimes committed in Darfur.

In April 2023, the war began between the Sudan Army and the Fast Support Forces (RSF), which led to what the UN calls “destructive civil victims”.

The Deputy Prosecutor of the ICC Nazhat Shamem Han said that “it is difficult to find the appropriate words to describe the depth of suffering” in the region.

The UN Security Council gave the ICC mandate to investigate and harass crimes in Darfur two decades ago, when the body opened several investigations of war crimes and genocide committed in the region since July 2002.

The ICC launched a fresh probe in 2023 after the civil war began again, interviewing the victims that fled the most recent iteration of the conflict in the neighboring Chad.

Ms Khan described the “inevitable resentment model” and emphasized that the team was working to translate such crimes into evidence of the court.

The charges of war crimes have been kept over the last two years, and in January 2025 the United States determined that RSF and the Union militias committed genocide.

RSF denied statements and stated that it does not participate in what it describes as a “tribal conflict” in Darfur.

The UN reports state that the conditions in Darfura continue to deteriorate, and hospitals and humanitarian columns suffer by targeted attacks, and the food and water were intentionally contained.

El Fasher’s civilian residents were cut off completely due to the RSF armed forces, and the cholera flash in conflict zones is a serious threat to already deficient water reserves.

The escalation hunger has covered the region, and the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF) reports that more than 40,000 children were taken for treatment from severe acute malnutrition between January to May 2025 – more than twice as much as the number taken in the same period last year.

“Children in Darfur are starving conflict and shut off the help that can save them,” said Scholdon Etot with UNICEF.

More than 150,000 people have been killed in the conflict over the past two years, and about 12 million have fled home, but Mrs. Khan warned that “we should not be under any illusion – it could still deteriorate.”