Impunity is stalling all peace efforts in Sudan. Can it end?

The war in Sudan has led to the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis. Impunity for war crimes has so far prevailed. It will be difficult to bring those responsible to justice. “The crisis in Sudan is a tragedy that appears to have slipped into the fog of global amnesia,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last spring. He was speaking just one year after a war broke out in the African country between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary army Rapid Support Forces RSF. Both warring parties have killed thousands and created a climate of terror displacing millions, he said, adding that medical supplies and humanitarian aid had been blocked for those refusing to leave their homes. Sudan is now experiencing the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis. Over the past 16 months ten million people have been displaced, 25 million are suffering from hunger and one million people are at risk of starvation. No one has yet been put on trial ...