The court found Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman guilty of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including rape, murder and persecution. His sentence will be determined at a later date after a new round of hearings, Reuters reported.
The conviction in the first and only trial looking at crimes in Sudan since the case was referred to the court by the United Nations Security Council in 2005 is a landmark for the ICC.
Darfur's conflict first erupted in 2003 when mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against Sudan's government, accusing it of marginalising the remote western territory.
Sudan's then government mobilised mostly Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed, to crush the revolt, unleashing a wave of violence that the U.S. and human rights groups said amounted to genocide.
Presiding judge Joanna Korner said the trial chamber unanimously found Abd-Al-Rahman, also known by the nickname Ali Kushayb, guilty of all the crimes he had been charged with and dismissed his defence that he was the victim of mistaken identity.
MNA
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