Since April 2023, the war, which pits the RSF, led by former deputy commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, against the army headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has killed tens of thousands of people.
The United Nations says Sudan faces the world’s largest internal displacement crisis, with more than 10 million forced to flee internally or abroad.
The ICC last year opened a new investigation for war crimes in the region, and Khan said it has made “significant progress”.
“I hope by my next report, I will be able to announce applications for warrants of arrest regarding some of those individuals that are the most responsible,” he said.
But he warned of a lack of international concern, saying the world is so “preoccupied with other epicentres of conflict, hot wars, in other parts of the world, that we’ve lost sight of the plight of the people of Darfur”.
He added that a “climate of impunity that we see very tangibly on the ground in El-Genina, and increasingly in El-Fasher, is driven by a deep belief that all human life doesn’t matter and that we’re not watching”.
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