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Darfur 24

Darfur 24 has learned that security authorities in Central Darfur state  on Friday arrested the former governor of Central Darfur, Shartay Jaafar Abdel Hakam, and transferred  him to Khartoum.

 

Special sources informed  Darfur 24 that  security authorities raided a funeral  gathering  in one of the neighborhoods of Zalingei city and arrested the prominent figure  of the former regime and Ex governor of Central Darfur, Shartay Jaafar Abdel Hakam.

 

Abdul Hakam is accused of  masterminding  crimes committed by the militia leader Ali Abdul Rahman “Kushayb” in the period between 2003-2004.

 

Jaffar was a civil  commissioner of Wadi Saleh locality, when the latter witnessed  genocide and  heinous crimes against humanity.

The sources indicate that the arrest of Abdul Hakam is directly related to the trial procedures of the detainee at the International Criminal Court, Ali Kushayb.
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