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Speaking to the BBC about the ICC’s investigation, Khan said: “We have now found concrete evidence that links what is happening on the ground through linkage evidence to specific persons in leadership mode.” <\/p>\n
However, she did not give a timeline on when charges might be brought against those responsible for the atrocities in the war, which began in April 2023.<\/p>\n
“We cannot say how quickly or how long it’s going to take,” she said.<\/p>\n
“But we can say that progress has been significant and that we have achieved a breakthrough.”<\/p>\n
The ICC, based in the Dutch city of The Hague, is a global court with the power to bring prosecutions for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.<\/p>\n
Khan spoke to the BBC after visiting refugee camps in eastern Chad, where those who had fled the fighting in Darfur told her of the atrocities they had suffered.<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes in el-Fasher and the UN said the violence there bore the “hallmarks of genocide”. <\/p>\n
The RSF has denied widespread allegations that killings in the city were ethnically motivated and follow a pattern of the Arab paramilitaries targeting non-Arab populations.<\/p>\n
The group insisted the scale of the atrocities had been exaggerated but acknowledged that some violations had occurred in the city. <\/p>\n