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A Sudanese court on Sunday sentenced paramilitary chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and 15 others to death in absentia for the killing of a regional governor and war crimes in Darfur, in the first such ruling against the Rapid Support Forces leadership since the conflict began.
The court in Port Sudan, the army’s de facto capital, convicted Daglo, widely known as Hemedti, along with his brother and deputy Abdelrahim Hamdan Daglo and several RSF officers, of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and attacks on civilians, state news agency SUNA reported.
The case centered on the June 2023 killing of West Darfur governor Khamis Abbakar, who was abducted and executed hours after accusing the RSF and allied militias of carrying out attacks against civilians in El-Geneina.
The court said it would refer the case to the Supreme Court for review and seek the arrest and extradition of those convicted through Interpol and other international channels.
Darfur has witnessed some of the war’s worst atrocities. UN experts determined that between 10,000 and 15,000 people, mostly from the Massalit ethnic group, were killed in El-Geneina during the violence.
The RSF has repeatedly denied allegations of genocide and other war crimes.
Now in its fourth year, the conflict between the army and the RSF has killed tens of thousands, displaced more than 11 million and triggered what the United Nations describes as the world’s largest displacement and hunger crises.
