Sudanese authorities will turn over the nation’s former president Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court [ICC] to stand trial for genocide and war crimes in Darfur.
The Sudanese state agreed to hand over al-Bashir during peace talks between the local government and Darfur rebel groups.
The 2003 Darfur conflict resulted in 300,000 deaths and a further 2.5 million people being displaced, according to the UN.
Sudanese government spokesman Mohammed Hassen Eltaish said: "Justice cannot be achieved if we don't heal the wounds.
"We agreed that everyone who had arrest warrants issued against them will appear before the ICC. I'm saying it very clearly.”
The former Sudanese leader, who first took power in 1989 after a military coup, was charged for crimes in Darfur back in 2009, but refused to recognise the ICC’s authority at the time and did not face trial despite the the issuing of an international arrest warrant.
Al-Bashir has since been removed from his government office and is serving a two-year sentence in a social reform facility in Sudan after being found guilty of corruption.
Now, he and any others charged by the ICC will likely be brought before The Hague to face trial after 11 years.
