Darfur: ICC convicts Janjaweed leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The landmark judgment, delivered on Monday in The Hague after a lengthy trial, found him guilty on 27 counts for his role in attacks against the Fur, Masalit and other non-Arab communities between August 2003 and March 2004 in West Darfur.
57% : Indiscriminate killings The Janjaweed - Arab militias armed and supported by Sudan's security forces - were part of Khartoum's campaign to crush a rebellion by non-Arab groups in 2003.
38% : Villages were razed, men summarily executed, and women raped in what the UN later described as one of the gravest humanitarian crises of the early 21st century.

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