After two decades of global silence, the International Criminal Court has finally found Ali Kushayb, guilty. Yet as the ink dries on the verdict, new atrocities unfold across Sudan — mass killings, sexual violence, and famine — this time at the hands of the Rapid Support Forces. Whitney Mckoy reports on how foreign governments, proxy forces, and silence have turned Sudan into an open-air graveyard.
KHARTOUM OCTOBER 9: After two decades of global silence, the International Criminal Court has finally found Ali Kushayb, a former commander of Sudan’s feared Janjaweed militia, guilty on 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed in Darfur.
Yet as the ink dries on the verdict, new atrocities unfold across Sudan — mass killings, sexual violence, and famine — this time at the hands of the Rapid Support Forces, a direct offshoot of the Janjaweed.
From Omar al-Bashir’s dictatorship to today’s civil war, the same networks of power continue to destroy Sudan’s people — while global powers look away.
Whitney Mckoy reports on how foreign governments, proxy forces, and silence have turned Sudan into an open-air graveyard.
