Ali Kushayb

Ali Kushayb
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Sudan
Allegiance Sudan
Service / branchJanjaweed
Popular Defence Forces (2003−2004)
CommandsCentral Reserve Forces (Abu Tira) in Rahad el-Berdi (2013)[1]
Battles / warsWar in Darfur

Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (Arabic: علي محمد علي عبد الرحمن), commonly known as Ali Kushayb (Arabic: علي كوشيب) (also: Koship, Kosheib, Kouchib, Kosheb, Koshib), is a senior Janjaweed commander who supported the Sudanese government against Darfur rebel groups during the Omar al-Bashir presidency. He was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes.[2] He was known as aqid al oqada ("colonel of colonels")[2] and was active in Wadi Salih, West Darfur.[3]

On 27 February 2007, Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo charged Kushayb with crimes against civilians in Darfur during 2003 and 2004, accusing him of ordering killings, rapes, and looting.[2] An ICC arrest warrant was issued for him and Ahmed Haroun, his co-defendant, on 27 April 2007.[4] In April 2008, he was released from Sudanese custody.[5] Sudanese authorities re-arrested Kushayb in October 2008.[6] In early 2013, Kushayb was commander of the Central Reserve Forces (Abu Tira) in Rahad el-Berdi in South Darfur.[1] Reports on his activities continued sporadically from 2013 to 2017.[7][8] He was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court in June 2020.[9]

Background

Ali Kushayb's father was a member of the Ta’isha tribe while his mother was from the Dangaoni tribe from the southern part of Sudan.

Ali Kushayb was an aqid al-ogada, a colonel of colonels, for the Wadi Salih area in Darfur.[10] He was one of the senior leaders of the tribal hierarchy in the Wadi Salih locality, and was a member of the Popular Defence Forces (PDF), as well as a commander of a government backed militia in Darfur from August 2003 until March 2004. He served as a liaison between the government and the Janjaweed, while simultaneously participating in attacks against targeted groups.[10]

Alleged criminal activity in Darfur

The ICC charged Kushayb with 504 counts of murder, 20 rapes, and the forced displacement of 41,000 people.[11] In one of the various attacks by Ali Kushayb and the militia under his command, a survivor reported that 150 people were murdered, in which 30 children were killed, all in 90 minutes.[12] Similarly, a woman who survived the pillaging of her village, Galania, and arrived to a refugee camp in Chad, related how one day the Janjaweed militia arrived at her town to kill civilians.[13] Her husband was the first to be killed, and while she tried to run away she was caught by militia soldiers, and, at the command of Kushayb, was forced at knifepoint to confess she was "tora-bora," or a rebel.[13] After she arrived in Chad, other victims told similar stories of the horrors they underwent by the militia under the command of Kushayb: sixteen women were murdered, from which six were elderly women, children were thrown into a fire, houses were burned, countless were tortured and wounded, a dozen others were killed.[13]

Kushayb has been accused of personally participating in attacks against civilians in the towns of Kodoom, Bindisi, Mukjar and Arawala and surrounding areas between August 2003 and March 2004.[14] Kushayb was reported to be working for Ahmed Haroun.[15] Eyewitnesses have reported meetings between Kushayb and Haroun. In one instance in August 2003, for example, Kushayb and Haroun supposedly met in the town of Mukluk, where Haroun provided money and arms to Kushayb for the militia.[12] After their meeting Kushayb led the militia in an attack on the town of Bindisi.[12] The attack lasted five days, during which more than 100 people were killed including 30 children.[16]

In December 2003 in the town of Arawala, a witness reported Kushayb inspecting her and other women who had been tied to a tree naked to be raped repeatedly by Janjaweed militia soldiers.[17] According to the ICC, Kushayb directly participated in the murder of 32 men in the town of Mukjar.[17] Fifteen minutes after Kushayb and his soldiers took the men from the village, gunshots were heard and 32 dead bodies were found the next day.[17] In another attack led by Kushayb near Mukjar, a man was arrested and told what he witnessed:[12]

"[The] men were restrained in different ways. Some of them … had been tied and suspended in the air… His arms were held wide apart and tied to a plank of wood on the ceiling, while his legs were also held wide apart and tied to objects on either side … a stove was left burning between his legs…. All the men had whip marks on their bodies and their clothes were torn and blood-stained… He had been repeatedly beaten, called "Tora Bora" and deprived of food…. Two other men … had been badly beaten and their fingernails and toenails had been forcibly removed."

Other activity

In April 2013, Kushayb, as commander of the Central Reserve Forces (Abu Tira) in Rahad el-Berdi in South Darfur, carried out a military attack with support from military intelligence forces after a peace treaty between the Salamat and al-Taaysha tribes had been signed.[1] On 7 July 2013, Kushayb, his bodyguards, and a tea-seller standing nearby were injured by a gunman in Nyala. Kushayb was bleeding from his shoulders and admitted to the Nyala Police Hospital with two bullet wounds in his shoulder. One of the bodyguards died. Kushayb was transferred to a hospital in Khartoum.[7] In December 2017, Kushayb was accused by leaders of the Salamat tribe of trying to kill Ali Osman Obeid, a cattle merchant, in Rahad el-Berdi.[8] As of June 2019, Kushayb remained a fugitive.[18]

International Criminal Court case

On 27 February 2007, Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo charged Kushayb with crimes against civilians in Darfur during 2003 and 2004, accusing him of ordering killings, rapes, and looting.[2] An ICC arrest warrant was issued for him and Ahmed Haroun, his co-defendant, on 27 April 2007.[4] In April 2008, he was released from Sudanese custody.[5] In October 2008, the Sudanese authorities re-arrested Kushayb.[6]

According to local media, Kushayb had moved from Sudan to the Central African Republic in February 2020, being worried about arrest by Sudanese authorities during the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy.[19] Kushayb surrendered himself for arrest in June 2020,[9] appearing before the International Criminal Court on 15 June 2020.[20]

In July 2021, the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed the indictment of Ali Kushayb, the first stemming from a UN Security Council referral.[21][22] His trial started in April 2022.[23]

In December 2024, the prosecutor of the ICC asked the judges to find Kushayb guilty on 31 counts.[24]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c el-Berdi, Rahad (2013-04-15). "ICC's Kushayb backed by military intelligence in South Darfur –source". Radio Dabanga. Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  2. ^ a b c d "International Criminal Court names first Darfur war crimes suspects". CRIN.org. Child Rights Information Network. 2007-02-27. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
  3. ^ "Time for justice in Darfur". web.amnesty.org. Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
  4. ^ a b "Ali Kushayb". trial.ch.org. Trial Watch. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
  5. ^ a b International Criminal Court. Public Redacted Version of the Prosecutor's Application under Article 58. (14 July 2008).
  6. ^ a b The New York Times. Sudan Arrests Militia Chief Facing Trial (13 October 2008)
  7. ^ a b "ICC indictee Ali Kushayb critically injured in attack in Nyala, South Darfur". Radio Dabanga. 2013-07-07. Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  8. ^ a b "Salamat: 'Ali Kushayb tried to murder South Darfur cattle merchant'". Radio Dabanga. 2017-12-18. Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  9. ^ a b "Situation in Darfur (Sudan): Ali Kushayb is in ICC custody". International Criminal Court. Archived from the original on 2020-06-09.
  10. ^ a b International Criminal Court. Warrant of Arrest For Ali Kushayb. (17) (27 April 2007).
  11. ^ Bouwknegt, Thijs. "Sudan Arrests Ali Kushayb." International Justice. Oct. 2008. Radio Netherlands Worldwide.[1]
  12. ^ a b c d "Faces of Genocide in Darfur: Ali Kushayb." Center on Law and Globalization.[2]
  13. ^ a b c Philp, Catherine. "Man who terrorized Darfur clings on to Safety in Sudan." Times Online. March 2007.[3]
  14. ^ International Criminal Court. Warrant of Arrest For Ali Kushayb. (5) (27 April 2007).
  15. ^ "'Sanctions on Sudan now'". www.newstatesman.com. 2 April 2008.
  16. ^ ""Congressional Record-Senate." The Library of Congress. 2007". Archived from the original on 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
  17. ^ a b c "Prosecutor Opening Remarks." International Criminal Court. 27 Feb. 2007."Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-06. Retrieved 2009-01-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. ^ Bensouda, Fatou (2019-06-19). "Statement to the United Nations Security Council on the Situation in Darfur, pursuant to UNSCR 1593 (2005)". International Criminal Court. Archived from the original on 2019-06-19. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  19. ^ Beaumont, Peter (2020-06-09). "Notorious Sudanese militia chief in Darfur conflict arrested in CAR". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  20. ^ Simons, Marlise (15 June 2020). "After 13 Years on the Run, a Sudanese Militia Leader Appears in Court". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 18, 2020. A Sudanese militia leader appeared before the International Criminal Court on Monday, after 13 years on the run, to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the bloody conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur from 2003 to 2004.
  21. ^ "Decision on the confirmation of charges against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman ('Ali Kushayb')". International Criminal Court. 9 July 2021.
  22. ^ Flanagan, Jane (2022-04-05). "Hague court opens first trial for war crimes in Sudan". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  23. ^ "Abd-Al-Rahman case: Trial to open on 5 April 2022". International Criminal Court. 8 September 2021.
  24. ^ "'Ali Kushayb' trial: ICC closing arguments cite Radio Dabanga evidence". Dabanga Sudan. 12 December 2024.

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