UNITED NATIONS: The International Criminal Court has opened a new probe into alleged war crimes in Sudan, its chief prosecutor said Thursday, expressing major concern over escalating violence.
Karim Khan made the announcement in a report to the UN Security Council, after three months of war between feuding generals have plunged the northeast African country back into chaos.The ICC has been investigating crimes in Sudan's Darfur region since 2005 after a referral by the UN Security Council, and the Hague-based court has charged former leader Omar al-Bashir with offenses including genocide.
'Affront to humanity' The US State Department welcomed the new probe. 'Let this be a message to all who commit atrocities, in Sudan and elsewhere, that such crimes are an affront to humanity,' spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.Even before the recent fighting broke out, Khan said in the report, there was a deterioration of Sudan's cooperation with UN investigators.Sudan's UN ambassador denied this.
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