On Monday, the United Nations Court rejected a case by accusing the United Arab Emirates of feeding the genocide in Sudan by supporting the paramilitary forces in the civil war under the country. The court said that “manifestly lacks jurisdiction”.
The International Court of Justice has not decided on the accusations made by the Sudanese government, but with a vote of 14-2, she refused to issue provisional emergency measures against the United Arab Emirates that Sudan had requested. With a vote of 9-7, he officially removed the case by his document, according to a summary of his decision.
Both Sudan and the Emirates are signatories of the 1948 genocide Convention, but the United Arab Emirates, when they signed the Treaty in 2005, renounced a key clause that allows countries to sue each other at the International Court of Justice, based in L'Aia.
In March, Sudan asked the Court to face his case, claiming that the Emirates had violated the agreement of the Armando genocide and financing the rapid support forces, a powerful paramilitary group that is fighting the Sudanese military.
At the initial audience last month, Sudan urged the court to impose several preliminary orders that impose the United Arab Emirates of stopping actions that could be equivalent to the genocide against Masalit people in the western Darfur region and put an end to any further assistance to the Arsf
The Emirates government rejected the statements, stating that Sudan had not been able to present credible evidence and claiming that the Court was missing from jurisdiction.
“Quite simply, today's decision represents a sensational refusal of the attempt of the South Armed Forces to exploit the Court for his disinformation campaign and to distract from his responsibility,” said Reem Ketait, a high official of the Ministry of Essenti Emirates, in a declaration sent to the New York Times after the decision of the Court.
The International Court declared in its summary that it was “precluded from its statute of taking any position on the merits of the statements made by Sudan”, but which was “deeply worried about the human tragedy that is taking place in Sudan”.
Khalid Ali Aleisir, Minister of Information of Sudan and spokesperson for the official government, did not respond to a request for comment.
The rapid support forces grew partially from the famous janjaweed militias, which in the 2000s helped Sudan to brutally suppress a rebellion in Darfur. That conflict has prompted a different world court, the international criminal court, to indicate the longtime dictator, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in 2009. The military overturned him a decade later, but was not delivered for the judicial procedure.
The current war in Sudan began in April 2023, when the RSF began to clash with the Sudan soldiers. Since then, the conflict has led to widespread hunger and famine, has cleared almost 13 million people and caused tens of thousands of deaths.
Both sides were accused of having committed war crimes and serious violations of human rights. The paramilitary group, led by Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan and his allies, were accused of having committed an ethnic cleaning and acts of genocide against the non -Arabic ethnic group. The army, led by General Abdel Fattoh al-Burhan, was accused of using chemical weapons and of taking the civilians with indiscriminate aims.
While the war raged, it attracted regional and foreign actors.
The United Arab Emirates in particular organized an elaborate secret operation to support the RSF, providing powerful weapons and drones, treating wounded fighters and transporting the most serious cases in one of its military hospitals, according to a dozen current officials and former former -united, Europe and different African countries.
The United Arab Emirates last September rejected the reports from the times according to which it was using the rescue operations of the Emirates Red Crescent in a Base of AMDJARASS, Chad, near Sudan, as a cover for weapons of smuggling to paramilitary flights and aired to guide the fighters.
Last week, the media of the State of Emirates reported that the authorities had foiled a attempt by Sudanese military officials to smuggine weapons to the Sudanese army through an airport in the Emirates.
The conflict has intensified in the last few weeks and months, with the military consolidating his grip on the capital, Khartum, and the reconquest of the main international airport of the city.
The paramilitary forces have consolidated their control over Darfur. Last week, the group killed more than 100 civilians in an attack on the southern city of Nahud and bags markets and pharmacies, said a group of doctors. The RSF also targeted the airport and several other civil structures in the eastern city of Port Sudan on the weekend, according to the army.
Abdalrahman Altayeb Reports contributed by Port Sudan.