Darfur war crimes trial opens in The Hague
Apr 15, 2022
2 minutes
By Jason Burke
It is nearly 8,000km from the scrub and deserts of south-west Sudan to the Netherlands, and a journey that Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman never thought he would make.
Eighteen years ago, the 65-year-old was a “feared and revered” commander of a brigade of the infamous Janjaweed militias deployed alongside Sudanese government forces to carry out
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