While there is a consensus in the international community that ethnic groups have been targeted in Darfur and that crimes against humanity have therefore occurred, there has been debate in some quarte
Dead animals lie in the middle of a burned and looted village in Darfur
UN Security Council chamber
![Destroyed villages as of August 2004[update] (Source: DigitalGlobe, Inc. and Department of State via USAID)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Villages_destroyed_in_the_Darfur_Sudan_2AUG2004.jpg/500px-Villages_destroyed_in_the_Darfur_Sudan_2AUG2004.jpg)
Destroyed villages as of August 2004[update] (Source: DigitalGlobe, Inc. and Department of State via USAID)
IDP camp near Nyala, South Darfur
Omar al-Bashir
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Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as head of state of Sudan under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. H
International response to the War in Darfur
…over to its custody. On 14 July 2008, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), filed ten charges of war crimes against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder. The ICC's prosecutors have claimed that al-Bashir "masterminded and…
Al-Bashir in 2009
Omar al-Bashir in 1989
Omar al-Bashir (centre) and Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein (blue fatigue) in front of the Republican Palace after the coup
Al-Bashir and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, 2005