Darfur 24, has learned that leader of the armed militia in Darfur,Ali Kushayb, has been arrested by the United Nations forces in the Central Africa Republic.
According to the source , the arrest of Kushayb was carried out in coordination between the United Nations Mission in Central Africa Republic and a tribal leader of one of the tribes in the country.
However, officials of the United Nations Mission in Central Africa “MINUSCA with whom Darfur 24 had contacted, refused to confirm or deny the news, while other sources said that Kushayb was arrested in border town of Birao on Sudanese Central African border.
Community leaders from the area told Darfur 24, that a helicopter had landed in area with the Attorney General of the Central African Republic accompanied by representatives of the International Criminal
Court office, and took a Sudanese citizen wanted by ICC and then left for the capital Bangui.
Kushayb faces charges of killing hundreds of citizens in the Shataya and Kailek areas, at the start of the war in Darfur in 2003-2004, in addition to playing a leading role tribal fighting in Rihaid Al-Bardi locality, between Taaisha and Salamat tribes.
The militia leader, admitted in a video that went viral, that he had committed murders using internationally prohibited weapons.
Addressing his tribe men on the Sudanese Chadian boarder, Ali said ” What has been circulated by media outlet , that I have committed war crimes is true”