A man accused of leading Sudan's feared Janjaweed militia pleaded not guilty to dozens of war crimes charges on Tuesday, at the start of the International Criminal Court's first trial over the Darfur conflict.
Referencing the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Khan said the trial was “an Iftar of sorts for the millions of Sudanese throughout the world that have been yearning for this day to come.”
Decades after the worst of the fighting, 1.6 million people are still internally displaced in Darfur, the United Nations estimates. Sudan's then government mobilised mostly Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed, to crush the revolt, unleashing a wave of violence that Washington and some activists said amounted to genocide.
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