Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates at the World Court for allegedly violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention by arming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the International Court of Justice said on Thursday. <\/p>\n
The United Arab Emirates said it would seek immediate dismissal of the case, which it said lacked \u201cany legal or factual basis,\u201d a UAE official said in a statement to Reuters. <\/p>\n
The charges are in connection with intense ethnic-based attacks by the RSF and allied Arab militias against the non-Arab Masalit tribe in 2023 in West Darfur, documented in detail by Reuters. Those attacks were determined to be genocide by the United States in January. <\/p>\n
The Sudanese foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters has seen a copy of the government\u2019s application. <\/p>\n
Sudanese officials have frequently accused the UAE of supporting the RSF, the government\u2019s rivals in an almost two-year-old civil war, charges the UAE denies but U.N. experts and U.S. lawmakers have found credible. <\/p>\n
At the ICJ, Sudan alleges the RSF committed \u201cgenocide, murder, theft of property, rape, forcible displacement, trespassing, vandalism of public properties, and violation of human rights,\u201d according to a statement by the ICJ, also known as the World Court. <\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to Sudan, all such acts have been \u2018perpetrated and enabled by the direct support given to the rebel RSF militia and related militia groups by the United Arab Emirates,\u2019\u201d it said. <\/p>\n
The UAE official said: \u201cThe UAE is aware of the recent application by the Sudanese Armed Force\u2019s representative to the International Court of Justice, which is nothing more than a cynical publicity stunt aimed at diverting attention from the established complicity of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the widespread atrocities that continue to devastate Sudan and its people.\u201d <\/p>\n
The UAE maintains that it is committed to addressing the humanitarian crisis and has \u201cconsistently called for an immediate ceasefire\u201d in Sudan, in a statement. <\/p>\n
The war between the Sudanese army and the RSF, which erupted after a power struggle over integrating the forces in April 2023, has devastated the country, spreading hunger and disease while risking its fragmentation, and has drawn in several foreign powers. <\/p>\n
It has sparked ethnic attacks in multiple areas, but the bloodiest were in West Darfur, where survivors told Reuters that Masalit boys were targeted for killing while young women were targeted for rapes over waves of attacks soon after the war began. <\/p>\n
The ICJ is the U.N.\u2019s highest court that deals with disputes between states and violations of international treaties. Sudan and the UAE are both signatories of the 1948 Genocide Convention. <\/p>\n
Sudan is asking the court to impose emergency measures and to order the Emirates to prevent such genocidal acts. <\/p>\n
While a hearing on the emergency measures should come before the ICJ within weeks, it will take years before the court will issue a final ruling which could determine if a genocide had been committed in Darfur. <\/p>\n
The RSF and allied political groups are in the process of setting up a parallel government to the army-aligned one which has taken Port Sudan on the Red Sea, a move rejected by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. <\/p>\n
Reporting by Reuters\u2019 Maha El Dahan, Stephanie van den Berg, Khalid Abdelaziz, and Bart Meijer; writing by Nafisa Eltahir; Editing by Toby Chopra, William Maclean<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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